![]() ![]() The action is set in several diverse Islands in what seems to be a world-spanning Archipelago known as the Myriad long dominated by benthos-dwelling savage "gods", now seemingly dead after a revolt of the human population. ![]() (1973- ) UK author who after an early appearance in SFinx (May 1995) began to professionally publish work of genre interest with "Shining Man" in The Dream Zone for January 2001 her works are usually and correctly thought of as fantasy, and adhere closely to fantasy conventions as to landscape and history, though the daedal Underground culture described very fully in A Face Like Glass ( 2012) is hauntingly akin to sf novels set in similar Pocket Universes after some holocaust the eventual discovery of the surface world here has all the poignance and thrill of the Conceptual Breakthrough central to much sf.Įven more tellingly, a more recent novel, Deeplight ( 2019), perhaps at some cost to the free flow of seemingly spontaneous invention in earlier tales, obdurately fixes all that happens to the underlying structure of the world of the tale, which is sufficiently coherent to engender a sense that an Alternate Cosmos is being described, certainly as far as the Physics governing the interior flow of ocean is concerned. ![]()
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