Mildred Downey Broxon
Autor/a de Too Long a Sacrifice
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Mildred Downey Broxon
Source Material 2 exemplars
The SFWA handbook 2 exemplars
Singularity 1 exemplars
Sea Changeling 1 exemplars
"The Antrim Hills" (in Aurora: Beyond Equality) 1 exemplars
A Witches Welcome 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Fourth Annual Collection (1975) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 5 [May 1982] (1982) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 65. Cyrion in Bronze. (1983) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 10 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Skaldaspillir, Sigfriour
- Data de naixement
- 1944-06-07
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Professions
- psychiatric nurse
Membres
Ressenyes
The Demon of Scattery de Poul Anderson
Viking invasion of Ireland, Strong woman captive takes revenge on captors
Not Anderson's best work, but entertaining enough. A women is captured by Vikings, and then she gets... revenge.
An Irish healer and her husband, a bard, are cursed and fated to live with the sidhe until released into the twentieth century, where powers greater than they involve them in the Troubles.
The writing is solid and pleasing, the ideas are good, and the basic plot is well told. Broxon has thought deeply about her subject and done good research, giving especially the modern parts of the book a ring of truth. My only wish is that she had better developed the archetypal characters so that there was greater impact on me as a reader as their subplot unfolded. My impression, too, is that the Horned God and Goddess bit is borrowed from Wicca, and is not actual Celtic mythos. Nevertheless, recommended for those interested in Ireland and Irish history, as well as in the struggle for peace.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 12
- També de
- 18
- Membres
- 354
- Popularitat
- #67,648
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 11
- Llengües
- 1