Maps to Nowhere

Marie Brennan

Sep 2017 · Book View Cafe

About this ebook

 Follow the map to another world . . .

Two cities joined by their reflections. A realm of feathered serpents and jaguar-men. A desert where a former goddess seeks the ultimate truth. In this collection, award-winning author Marie Brennan takes you to ten different fantastical lands, including the world of her famed scholar-heroine Lady Trent. Journey with her to places rich and strange: here there be more than just dragons.

Ratings and reviews

This was an early reviewer book. The stories are compelling and the writing good but most of the stories have a dark turn to them. I would not recommend this collection for everyone; however, if you like sad stories and dark subject matter, you will enjoy this collection.

Several interesting tidbits, uneasy appetizers. Lady Trent's letters are a hoot!

I feel like some of the stories in here were, as someone else mentioned before me, writing exercises. I also felt like some of them could've been fully fledged books, if she'd had the desire to expand them. They were interesting, to be fair. I enjoyed how different they were from each other.

About the author

Marie Brennan is a former anthropologist and folklorist who shamelessly pillages her academic fields for inspiration. She has recently misapplied her professors' hard work to the short novel DRIFTWOOD and TURNING DARKNESS INTO LIGHT, a sequel to the Hugo Award-nominated Victorian adventure series The Memoirs of Lady Trent. The first book of that series, A NATURAL HISTORY OF DRAGONS, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Her other works include the Doppelganger duology, the urban fantasy Wilders series, the Onyx Court historical fantasies, the Varekai novellas, and nearly sixty short stories, as well as the New Worlds series of worldbuilding guides. Together with Alyc Helms as M.A. Carrick, she is the author of the upcoming Rook and Rose epic fantasy trilogy, beginning with THE MASK OF MIRRORS in January 2021. For more information, visit swantower.com, Twitter @swan_tower, or her Patreon at www.patreon.com/swan_tower.