Ann Leckie, the award-winning science fiction author of The Imperial Radch Trilogy --- Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy --- has just published her first fantasy novel, and once again proved herself to be one of the most original and intriguing authors of sf/fantasy since the late, great Ursula K. LeGuin.
The Raven Tower features a traditional swords and sorcery-style fantasy world, with some significant twists. The narrator is an ancient god, who alternately observes and comments upon a usurped throne in Iraden that mirrors Shakespeare's Hamlet. But the god speaks not to Mowat (Hamlet) but to Eolo (Horatio). In an alternating second plot line, the god describes his own slow awakening to consciousness over the millennia; his understanding of how gods exercise power, and the limits thereof; the complex relation between gods and humans, and whether the god will intervene in the catastrophe engulfing Iraden.
Ann Leckie lives in St. Louis, and loves to hang out in local libraries.
Click HERE to read an interview with Ann Leckie on syfy.com
Click HERE to read the review from ars technica.com
Click HERE to read the review on tor.com.
Click HERE to read the review from NPR (National public Radio).
Click HERE to read a pair of reviews from Locus Magazine.
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