Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to comment or request changes to book records.įor general comments on Goodreads and for requests for changes to site functionality, try Goodreads Help or use the Contact Us link instead.įor tips on being a librarian, check out the Non-librarians are welcome to join the group as well, to A place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. If this ISN'T Classical Greece, then for heaven's sake make the names over a lot harder and don't use actual Greek terminology.moreĪ place where all Goodreads members can work together to improve the Goodreads book catalog. I find the use of actual Greek terms like naos and pronos for temples and half make-overs of actual Greek names like Laecdomon for Lacedemon, aka Sparta and environs, distracting. Book 2 was interesting for the calamity to Gen, but I only really got interested in Book 3, where we mostly got out of cf to Smith - though *A Stranger to Command* is a pretty solid echo of the military context - and Gen started becoming REALLY devious instead of only pretending to be a clown. The first 2 were OK - very reminiscent of the Sherwood Smith YA "adventures of real world heroine in pre-industrial elsewhere" - as In the Dobrenica books - stroppy, feisty etc hero/ine, pre-indust societies, lots of galloping about on horses thru deserted or near empty countryside, slash-and-buckle exploits. The first 2 were OK - very reminiscent of the Sherwood Smith YA "adventures of real world heroine in pre-industrial elsewhere" - I'm reading them now. She lives in a house with a lot of trees but no cats.more
She has also published short stories in Australian and US anthologies, including "The Cretaceous Border" in Neverlands from Susurrus Press, "The Sharp-Shooter" in New Ceres Nights from 12th Planet Press, and "An Offer You Couldn't Refuse" in Love and Rockets from DAW. Her novella, "Spring in Geneva," a riff on Frankenstein, came out from Aqueduct in 2013. Her most recent novel-length work is a two-volume contemporary fantasy, the Blackston Gold series, The Solitaire Ghost, and The Time Seam. She has published six fantasy novels, two of which, The Moving Water (2006) and Amberlight (2007) were finalists for best fantasy novel of the year in the Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards. She writes fantasy and SF set in analogue or alternate Australian settings. She has also published short stories in Australian and US anthologies, including "The Cretaceous Border" in Neverlands from Susurrus Press, "The Sharp-Shooter" in New Ceres Nights from 12th Planet Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia. Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia.
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