Nicola Griffith
1) So lucky
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can't rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away--they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the...
2) Spear
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. 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. And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she...
3) Hild
Author
Series
Hild ; 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worrying. Edwin of Northumbria plots to become overking of the Angles, ruthlessly using every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Hild is the king's youngest...
4) Slow river
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
A rich woman escapes from her kidnapers and is taken in by a lesbian who deals in computer fraud and prostitution. The two work together, but the woman becomes revolted and returns home to learn the kidnaping was arranged by a family member.
5) Ammonite
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep--and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid...
7) Menewood
Author
Series
Hild ; 2
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the much-anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seventh-century Britain, a land of rival kings and religions poised for epochal change"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Diabolical Plots, LLC
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved
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