Books by Marie Brennan and Complete Book Reviews
Marie Brennan, Author . Orbit $14.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-316-02029-9
Stunningly conceived and exquisitely achieved, this rich historical fantasy portrays the Elizabethan court 30 years into the reign of the Virgin Queen, often called Gloriana. Far below ground, her dark counterpart, heartless Invidiana, rules England'
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Marie Brennan, Tor, $15.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2536-5
As in 2009's brilliant Midnight Never Come, anthropologist Brennan strikes a resonant balance between history and fantasy in this new tale of the faerie domain beneath 1750s London. Halley's Comet, which houses the exiled Dragon Spirit of Fire who...
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Marie Brennan. Tor, $27.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2537-2
Gifted storyteller and world-builder Brennan returns to the Onyx Court, a faery city that coexists with London, in her fourth historical fantasy (after 2010's A Star Shall Fall). As the Onyx Court is threatened by 19th-century advances in technology,
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Marie Brennan. Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3196-0
Isabella, Lady Trent, is a naturalist and adventurer in a country that more or less resembles 19th-century England, yet fantastical creatures roam, Judaism appears to be the dominant religion, and Europe once had an ancient Egypt-like civilization....
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Marie Brennan. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3197-7
Brennan’s sequel to A Natural History of Dragons is more of the same–a literate account of a woman’s fieldwork on dragons, which in this imagined 19th-century world are natural creatures. Isabella, Lady Trent, has even determined the six criteria...
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Marie Brennan. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3198-4
Brennan’s third fictional memoir in the voice of controversial naturalist Lady Isabella Trent (after Tropic of Serpents), which describes a voyage designed to expand Isabella’s understanding of seagoing dragons, matches real-world Victorian...
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Marie Brennan. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7763-0
In the solid fourth book of the Lady Trent series (after Voyage of the Basilisk), Lady Isabella Trent looks back at a time when she and long-time friend Tom Wilker are tapped to lead a military-research program to breed dragons. Facing off against...
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Marie Brennan. Tor.com, $2.99 e-book (88p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9138-4
Brennan (In the Labyrinth of Drakes) explores the power of memory, self-realization, and destiny in this mix of survival story and self-discovery tale. A woman with no memory of who she is or where she came from appears in a strange land, summoned...
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Marie Brennan. Tor, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7765-4
Brennan delights with this fifth and final memoir (after In the Labyrinth of Drakes) of Baroness Isabella Trent, adventuress and scholar of dragonkind in an alternate Victorian era. Lord Suhail Trent is delivering a lecture on the Draconean language
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Marie Brennan. Tor.com, $2.99 e-book (88p) ISBN 978-0-7653-9143-8
In Brennan’s second fantasy adventure featuring formidable, vulnerable Ree (after A Cold-Forged Flame), the magic-wielding archon has finished the quest that she was summoned, by sacrifice and blood, to complete. Since then, she’s been traveling and
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Marie Brennan. Tachyon, $15.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-61696-346-0
Brennan (the Memoirs of Lady Trent series) plays with the concept of secondary-world fantasy with this fresh, immersive introduction to the land of Driftwood, a patchwork world where other fantasy worlds come to die. As each otherworld is pulled...
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