Give it a look!

Wed 30 Aug 2023 - Filed under: Not a Journal., , | Posted by: Gavin

I was enjoying an author interview in Shelf Awareness this rainy morning when I was brought up short to see SL Huang is an evangelist for Kalpa Imperial. Now that is a way to wake up!

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SL Huang: Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire that Never Was is one of the books I’m constantly hyping that I feel like so much of SFF has slept on! It’s by Argentinian author Angélica Gorodischer, and the translation from Spanish was done by Ursula K. Le Guin. And it is stunning.

It also exemplifies a lot of unusual things, craft-wise, that are highly unusual elsewhere: a fantasy world with no magic, a book made up of interconnected short stories, a book that takes place over many generations and many thousands of years. Give it a look!