I am pleasedha English understatement I am fucking thrilled, delighted, and beaming I haven’t stopped grinning since my editor at FSG, Sean Macdonald, texted me 13 hours ago. Apparently it is a Queer Arthurian Masterpiece. Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith returns with Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor.com. Image description: A cropped version of the Notecard Rosette (see image description below) designed to look very much like an ammonite, or a giant eye with a dark blue pupil, with writingSpear in big black letters, and, beneath that in smaller red letters, Nicola Griffith,are prominent in the upper right corner. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded last night, and Spear won the Ray Bradbury Award. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women.
Hilda of Whitby, a young woman making her way and her. With the wonderful Hild, Griffith told the story of 7 th -century figure St. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court.Īnd so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. Nicola Griffith has dazzled us before with her exploration of a Dark Age Britain through the eyes of a redoubtable character of intense observation and strength.
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. Spear by Nicola Griffith is an engrossing historical fantasy and queer retelling of Arthurian myth and legend and there are a lot of magical elements embedded within it. This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.Ī spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild
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