When a passage home finally opens, Nora must weigh her "real life" against the dangerous power of love and magic.įor lovers of Lev Grossman's The Magicians series ( The Magicians and The Magician King) and Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy ( A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night). And it will take her becoming Aruendiel's student-and learning magic herself-to survive. Her only real ally-and a reluctant one at that-is the magician Aruendiel, a grim, reclusive figure with a biting tongue and a shrouded past. Making it here will take skills Nora never learned in graduate school. Nora's new fantasy world turns darker, a fairy tale gone incredibly wrong. Before long, she has a set of glamorous new friends and her romance with gorgeous, masterful Raclin is heating up. During a miserable weekend at a friend's wedding, Nora wanders off and walks through a portal into a different world where she's transformed from a drab grad student into a stunning beauty. Nora Fischer's dissertation is stalled and her boyfriend is about to marry another woman. Her own struggles, though, are far from over.Īn imaginative story of a woman caught in an alternate world-where she will need to learn the skills of magic to survive If Gunnhild can keep the promise she made as a child to never yield, her family's blood will flow greatly, and the sons she bore Eirik will each become a king. But Eirik's enemies are cunning, and Gunnhild is soon without his might. She is destined to become queen, and her magic is a fearsome complement to Eirik's strength. Aided by her new abilities, Gunnhild marries Eirik. Sent away to learn the magic of a pair of shamans, Gunnhild becomes a Spaewife - a knower of the Gods, a master in the ways of witchcraft and sorcery. But there are other lessons and other power she seeks. Gunnhild has learned from her chieftain father the way the powerful use the weak. When her mother dies, Gunnhild promises, "I will never yield", and that, "through me, our blood shall flow greatly". She also finds another fascination in handsome and lordly Eirik, son of their king. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science FictionĪs a child of just seven summers, Gunnhild finds herself fascinated with the powers of a witch-woman who is a concubine of her father's, a powerful Norse chieftain.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected.
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