Torn World offers a unique shared world platform with flavors of science fiction, high fantasy, slipstream, steampunk and alternate realities. Two widely disparate cultures are poised to meet – a close-knit, peaceful, unicorn-herding people, and a sprawling, expansionist, pre-industrial Empire that uses time technology in a near-magic fashion. Created by Ellen Million, multiple authors and artists have used the . . .
A story of loss and victory, magic and machines, gods and mortals and discovering what it takes to save the world. Led by the vision of the consulary and protected by the dedication of the mage-knights, the world has found peace at last. Or so people believe, but the truth is far less comforting. In this time of peace . . .
For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence . . .
The floating island of Ansau was created nearly 500 years ago to escape the Ve Cataclysm, since then it has drifted with the ocean currents in relative isolation, until now. Broken Shores is a big fantasy story told through a series of short stories. It is designed so that any of the stories can be read in any order, . . .
In Kherishdar, when a person commits a crime, they become their sin. . . . Suicide. Rape. Child Abuse. Addiction. Twenty-five crimes. Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five narrators . . . and one minister over them all, to judge, convict and Correct the faulty: the priest who serves Shame. This companion volume to The Aphorisms of Kherishdar explores the wayward and their journey back to society, offering . . .
come sit down with me I will serve you tea and cheese let us eat and talk
the world moves quickly we forget beautiful things because we see not
fine morning roses the curve of moon clouds at night bright twinkle of [more . . .]
MCA Hogarth is not to be missed, whatever she writes, and "Aphorisms" is a prime example why. I read it all in a go and have moved on to the companion piece, "Admonishments of Kherishdar."
How much do I love this? I’ve placed the hard copy on my Amazon wish list, [more . . .]