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When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

By John Folk-Williams

When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill

Set primarily in an alternative version of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, Kelly Barnhill’s magnificent When Women Were Dragons tells many stories. There is the story of the mass dragoning of April 25, 1955, when over 642,987 mothers and wives stepped out of their human skins to live as dragons, and of […]

Filed Under: Urban Fantasy Tagged With: dragons, family, human emotion, Kelly Barnhill, liberation, memory, oppression, sapphic love

The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford – A Review for Wyrd & Wonder

By John Folk-Williams

The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford

John M. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting is a brilliant reshuffling of fantasy tropes and alternate history but at heart also a beautiful study of a group of extraordinary characters. First published in 1983, this is the first of Ford’s novels to be republished since his death in 2006 when, apparently because no one could trace […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: alternate history, deception, dragons, empire, England, fantasy, John M. Ford, magic, power, vampire

Taking on my SciFi TBR – Summer Wrap-Up

By John Folk-Williams

The Bone Ship's Wake

Well, I worked through this summer’s scifi TBR, adding a few more titles along the way, but not all of the novels and stories were quite right for me. I’ve already reviewed the four I really loved – books that changed me in some way. Those are Notes from the Burning Age, And What Can […]

Filed Under: Secondary World Fantasy, Taking on My SFF TBR Tagged With: adventure, David Brin, dragons, fantasy, Fonda Lee, qntm, rebirth, RJ Barker, robots, singularity, The Tide Child Trilogy

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Every now and then a book surprises me, especially when searching through the often dated fiction for Vintage SciFi Month. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, first in a mighty line of 23 novels set in the Pern universe, is one of those. It’s a surprise because I’m not a big fan of fantasy, yet I keep finding […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Secondary World Fantasy, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Anne McCaffrey, dragons, Pern, power, psychic powers, relationships, revenge

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