Yoke of Stars (Birdverse Books) - Softcover

Lemberg, R. B.

 
9781616964184: Yoke of Stars (Birdverse Books)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1616964189 ISBN 13: 9781616964184
Verlag: Tachyon Publications, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

An apprentice assassin and an inquisitive linguist trade interwoven tales in order to enact revenge. Ukrainian author R. B. Lemberg (The Four Profound Weaves) returns to their legendary Birdverse in an ode to the transformative power of storytelling.

“Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading.”
—Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart

In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first assignment. After their first kill, they will graduate and attain the coveted cloth of bone. But instead of a commission, Stone Orphan gets an inquisitive linguist, Ulín. Ulín has heard the Orphan Star’s song of despair, mirroring her own, and drawing her to the School of Assassins. But Ulín is far more interested in learning Stone Orphan’s language than deciding whom she wishes to kill.

Unable to contain their curiosity, Stone Orphan offers to exchange stories with Ulín to help her decide the fate of three men. By turns, Stone Orphan and Ulín narrate tales of love, suffering, exile, and self-determination, and two wounded souls find hope in each other through the radical act of listening.

  • This newest novella R. B. Lemberg’s lush, inclusive Birdverse universe explores the unlikely connection between a linguist and an assassin, in a tale rooted in mystical cosmology, neurodiversity, and queerness
  • Lemberg’s work has invited glowing comparisons to N. K. Jemisin (The Fifth Season), Patricia A. McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld), and Ursula K. Le Guin (The Left Hand of Darkness)
  • Lemberg’s first three Birdverse books, The Four Profound Weaves, was a finalist for the World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Otherwise, and Locus Awards, and is currently nominated for the Hugo Award

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    Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

    Le Guin Feminist Science-Fiction Fellowship recipient R. B. Lemberg is a queer, bigender fantasist, poet, and professor. Lemberg’s Birdverse novella The Four Profound Weaves was a finalist for the Nebula, Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Their stories and poems have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, We Are Here: Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Sisters of the Revolution, and many other publications. Lemberg was born in L’viv, Ukraine, and currently lives and teaches in Kansas with their family.

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    Verlag
    Tachyon Publications
    Erscheinungsdatum
    2024
    Sprache
    Englisch
    ISBN 10 
    1616964189
    ISBN 13 
    9781616964184
    Einband
    Taschenbuch
    Anzahl der Seiten
    182
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