“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place.”
Toni Morrison
In this novel of magical realism with a bit of SF curling at the corners, author Talulah J. Sullivan has woven a tale suggested by the ways of her Choctaw & Chickasaw grandmothers.
A centuries-long stalemate endures over possession of a sentient world. In one corner stands a cabal of shamans; in the other, a colony of aliens whose bio-engineering experiment has gone amok… and in the middle, a youth who has been genetically altered to ‘Shape’ the elemental powers.
Tokela doesn’t want this ability, and neither does his tribe. His own suppressed elemental heritage will lend control over what abilities the outlanders have triggered.
It will also see him hounded as a potential weapon—not just by the invaders, but his own people.
An Historical Fantasy series by J Tullos Hennig
With a truly original take on the Robin Hood legends, this historical fantasy series sets Robin the outlaw archer as a queer, chaotic-neutral druid, Marion as pagan queen who is sister but not wife, and their consort a Christian–and thusly conflicted–nobleman.
