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Chargement... Chance and Other Gestures of the Hand of Fatepar Nancy Springer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "Pico Review" written for the SF fanzine OtherRealms in 1989: Long and short stories with a few poems mixed in, mostly fantasy. "Chance" and "The Golden Face of Fate" are traditional fantasy stories about an enchanted forest and the not so happily-ever-after love story of a princess and a woodsman. The forest denizens bring them together, but for their own ends, bringing to mind the moral `It's not nice to fool Mother Nature'. The "Bright-Eyed Black Pony" belongs to a little boy who goes to visit a wizard for help, it just wasn't a pony when they started out. Horses play a major role in several stories. "The Bard" has each soldier imagine his ideal horse, but sees for himself the white horse, symbol of death. "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" must enchant the horses to get them to stay so still and may be something enchanted himself. I don't really know how to evaluate poetry, but I especially liked "The Wolf Girl Speaks", a feral child's view of being "rescued" by her own kind. While all were entertaining, none of these stories really jumped out at me. If you're sick of traditional fantasy, there is nothing particularly unusual here. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Winner of the WordWeaving Award for Excellence: The stories and poems in this fantasy collection explore the enchanted realms of the imagination--and our universal need for love and acceptance The title character of Nebula Award finalist "The Boy Who Plaited Manes" is a nameless mute at a royal stable who teaches his abusive noble master an unforgettable lesson. Gage undergoes a transformation in the "Bard" as he strums a silver harp and dreams of horses and a lost love. In "Bright-Eyed Black Pony," the reclusive sorcerer Wystan devises a plan to help a despairing young prince. Pregnant wife Lin Burke has just moved to a backwater coal town in Pennsylvania and is about to meet her very unusual neighbor in "Primal Cry." The title story is told in two parts: "Chance" and "The Golden Face of Fate." As Lord's Warden, it is the orphaned bastard Chance's job to keep the vast forest of Wirral safe from poachers, spies, and the occasional murderer. But other creatures dwell here. They are the Denizens, whose tiny faces disappear in the blink of an eye, and who are never spoken of by name. They see and know all, including the truth about Chance's love for the beautiful, unattainable Lady Halimeda--and the final, terrible secret of Wirral. Other pieces feature female wolves, dog-kings, and sun kings. In poems and prose of grief and atonement, hope, healing, and lost faith, Springer mines the magic that makes us human. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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