The Red Mother

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EPUB, 32 pages

English language

Published June 22, 2021 by Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:
978-1-250-82374-8
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ISFDB ID:
2997592

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4 stars (1 review)

Auga, a wandering sorcerer, follows his brother's fate-thread into the village of Ormsfjoll, where he expects to deliver good news and continue his travels. What he doesn't anticipate is that to meet his brother he must first contend with the truth at the heart of the volcano that wreaks havoc on Ormsfjoll.

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reviewed The Red Mother by Elizabeth Bear

Wonderful world building in a fractured fairytale

4 stars

Bear creates an interesting alternate world with strange customs and complicated family situations, and drops the reader in media res to figure it out. In this world dragons are powerful, but also intellectually curious and don't need to be fought to "win", for some definition of winning.

Tor has published the full text: www.tor.com/2021/06/23/the-red-mother-elizabeth-bear/ and the author is also on mastodon @matociquala@raggedfeathers.com