Tag: Marie Brennan

…this reminded me of everything from Star Trek: TNG’s “Measure of a Man” to H. Beam Piper’s “Little Fuzzy.”

From Scirland, something like Victorian England during the height of scientific discovery and exploration, Isabella, Lady Trent, defies convention and risks personal peril and terrible loss by joining an expedition into the darkest and most dangerous reaches of storied Eriga to investigate the habits and habitat of dragons. Written much in the fashion of Charles…

Read more …this reminded me of everything from Star Trek: TNG’s “Measure of a Man” to H. Beam Piper’s “Little Fuzzy.”

It’s like Darwin wrote steampunk.

The Voyage of the Basilisk by Marie Brennan Even better than the first two in this series, and what a beautiful production–wonderful wrap-around cover art, deckle edges, a map, beautiful illustrations, the Dickensian chapter headings change at the top of the page to reflect the action below, and, good lord, blue ink. Lady Trent, excuse…

Read more It’s like Darwin wrote steampunk.