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Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott – Book 2 of The Sun Chronicles

By John Folk-Williams

Furious Heaven by Kate Elliott

Kate Elliott’s Furious Heaven is a big, richly detailed reworking in space of the career of Alexander the Great, though you don’t need to know that background to enjoy this epic space adventure. At more than 700 pages, it’s long but never tedious, and each chapter repays close reading. In this volume Sun Shan, daughter […]

Filed Under: Space Opera Tagged With: battle strategy, destiny, galactic empires, identity, Kate Elliott, power, space governance, transhuman

Five Favorite Fantasy Novels Read This Past Year: Wyrd & Wonder

By John Folk-Williams

Wyrd & Wonder 2022

It’s Wyrd & Wonder time again and, though I’ll have other kinds of posts this month as well, I thought I’d start with this Fantastic Five meme. I’ve read a lot more than five great fantasies since last May, but here are the most recent ones (actually six) that haven’t yet been in any other […]

Filed Under: Favorite SFF, Wyrd and Wonder Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gautam Bhatia, Kate Elliott, Nicola Griffith, Rebecca Roanhorse

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott

From the moment an enemy fighter squadron breaks out of the sky for a sneak attack on a key industrial park, Kate Elliott’s Unconquerable Sun delivers an intricate yet fast paced adventure like few I’ve ever read. The 20 year-old Princess Sun, heir to Chaonia’s terrifying queen-marshall, Eirene, is put to the test again and […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Reviews, Space Opera Tagged With: alien civilizations, battle strategy, culture, galactic empires, Kate Elliott, religion, space opera

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