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The World Needs More Fiction about Questing Old Ladies

January 30, 2017 by melanir 1 Comment

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is a fantasy novella standalone and I don’t understand why I didn’t like it more than I did. All of the elements were there for a story to really speak to my soul, but for some reason this one just didn’t. It’s a good story, and I enjoyed it but my expectations going into reading it were a lot higher. Vellitt Boe is a professor at a University when one of her students, Clarie Jurat runs off to go live […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Kij Johnson

“I knew a dreamer, a long time ago.”

January 8, 2017 by ArchaeoKelly 4 Comments

“She had no idea what to expect, so there was no predicting what would be needed.” Vellitt Boe, Professor at the Women’s College at Ulthar, goes on a journey to find her student, Jurat, who has run off with a man she’s been seeing.  He is planning to take her away to the waking world where, “He says there are millions of stars.”  The problem is that Jurat’s father is a trustee of the board for the college and the board will likely get angry […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Kij Johnson

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