Sara Norja | writer

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  • Alphabet of Embers review

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    An Alphabet of Embers launches this week, at the Nebula Awards! And here’s a lovely review of it, in which the reviewer Christina lists my story “The City Beneath the Sea” among those they particularly appreciated: “Embers maintains a consistent and cohesive feel throughout: it stories are literary and poetic, with a fluidity of style…

  • Sunday recs: Stories + novels

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    Sunday recs! Featuring three delightful short stories, and two excellent novels. Tomorrow When We See the Sun by A. Merc Rustad (in Lightspeed) – a weird and cool space opera. A dark atmosphere but so beautiful. Merc’s worldbuilding is great, and I especially love how they use language. Poetic writing in prose <3 And the…

  • Sunday recs: Bone Swans

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    I just finished Bone Swans, a collection of stories by C.S.E. Cooney – very highly recommended! A great collection of stories, poetry singing along with the narrative (and often included, too, to dazzling effect). C.S.E. Cooney’s writing just has this amazing energy and panache to it. I love it. How they’re written – the juicy,…

  • Sunday recs: art magic

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    Have been way too exhausted to blog lately. Should learn better time management, or possibly just somehow learn how to be less busy… Anyway, small rec for today because I don’t want to get too badly out of the habit: Do Not Touch by Prudence Shen (with some charming art by Noreen Rana and Faith…

  • Sunday recs: The Goblin Emperor

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    A novel for today’s Sunday recs: I just read Katherine Addison’s novel The Goblin Emperor and was, quite frankly, blown away. I haven’t loved a novel this much in ages! It was the perfect escape amidst a very busy couple of weeks. I may or may not have uttered a “noooooo” when I realised the…

  • Sunday recs: The Dishonesty of Dreams

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    Today’s reading recommendation is a poetry collection: The Dishonesty of Dreams by Adrienne J. Odasso. I’ve been reading Adrienne’s poetry for a long time; I really admire her work so I’d love for other people to find her stuff, too. Here’s my review of The Dishonesty of Dreams (copied from Amazon.com): The Dishonesty of Dreams…

  • Sunday recs: Everything Martha Wells has ever written

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    I was introduced to Martha Wells’ books earlier this year through this squee post by Kate Elliott (whose work I love, as I’ve mentioned before on this blog). I’m so glad I discovered Martha Wells! I’ve been reading everything of hers that I’ve been able to get my hands on. Wells is an amazing worldbuilder…

  • Long Hidden – a brief review

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    I recently finished reading the anthology I got this May – Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. Here’s how the editors (Rose Fox and Daniel José Older) describe it: There is a long and honorable legacy of literary resistance to erasure. This anthology partakes of that legacy. It will feature stories from…

  • Sunday recs: Romance, domesticity and demons

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    Long time no recs! So, here’s some stories I’ve read in the past few months but have not recced. (On the Nanowrimo front, there is not much to report. I’ve been too lazy and tired to work on my novel edits, I’ll admit – but today I managed to get a bit done. Will try…

  • Delicious fruit

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    Goblin Fruit never fails to delight me. There are wonderful gems of poetry in each issue, and the Summer 2012 issue is no exception. I just finished making my way through the issue, and wanted to briefly blog about it – there are some really delicious poems there. The only poets I recognised were Sonya…