My library has a few copies, so it will be easy to get a copy, and I may do just that in November, as I’ve been thinking of reading a bunch of the shorter books on my TBR. I’ve heard nothing but good things about this little book, and from disparate reviewers who disagree on many books, so that they’re all raving about Elder Race says a lot. Nevertheless, he decides to accompany Lynesse on her quest for what his knowledge of science tells him cannot possibly be a demon. We begin with a fantasy storytold in a moderately formal, mythic styleabout a princess who has grown up hearing tales of the mysterious sorcerer at the top of the mountain. He has power, to be sure, but he shouldn’t even be speaking with these people, for fear of breaching an ancient directive. Elder Race tells one story that takes place in two subgenres with entirely different styles. She does so, anyway.īut Elder Nyr isn’t a sorcerer. But as soon as we switch to the perspective of that wizard, everything changes. There is a princess, a kingdom in danger, and a crotchety old wizard living in his tower. At first glance, it reads as a classical fantasy, maybe even a fairy tale. Solaris, 30 (144p) ISBN 978-1-78618-528-0 Tchaikovsky ( Elder Race) takes a sharp look in this twisty social satire at a world in which, due to genetic modification. Elder Race tells the story of Lynesse, the (low-ranking) Fourth Daughter of the queen.Īlthough no one else appears to agree, she believes that the only way to rid her land of the demon that terrorizes it is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the tower for as long as her people have lived here. This is a lesson that Adrian Tchaikovsky takes to heart in Elder Race.

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