[Karin Lowachee is an award-winning SF-novelist. She has published three novels - Warchild (2002), Burndive (2003) and Cagebird (2005). This interview was conducted via email for wotmania's Other Fantasy section, and can also be found on the Wotmania Other Fantasy Message Board and the Other Fantasy Blog of the Fallen.]
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Entries Tagged as ‘The Mark’
August 22, 2007
Interview with Karin Lowachee
August 19, 2007
Cagebird by Karin Lowachee
Karin Lowachee’s Cagebird, released in 2005 under the Warner Aspect imprint, is the third novel set in her Warchild universe. It can be seen as a parallel novel to Warchild and Burndive, covering a large amount of the same time period, and quite a few of the same events. This time, however, our protagonist [...]
August 16, 2007
Burndive by Karin Lowachee
Karin Lowachee’s Burndive was published by Warner Aspect around 2003. It functions as a sequel/stand-alone related novel to Warchild. I only heard of Lowachee a year ago, and so cannot be certain, but given that Warchild won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award I imagine that hopes ran high for Burndive, with people wondering if [...]
July 31, 2007
Mélusine by Sarah Monette
[I have a very big bone to pick with Sarah Monette's Mélusine: it is not a stand-alone novel, being the first of a series (a quadrilogy?), and no where on the cover is this information given. I mean, it says it's a first novel, and there's an extract of her "next" novel inside, but until [...]
July 30, 2007
Warchild by Karin Lowachee
Karin Lowachee’s Warchild was the second novel ever (there have been only two) to win the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest back in 2001. The hype was extremely localised – I mean, I didn’t hear of it until a year ago, and having read the novel I wonder why.
Eight-year-old Jos Musey lives on the trading [...]
June 21, 2007
The Vintner’s Luck, by Elizabeth Knox
Elizabeth Knox, on minimal research, is far more famous than I had supposed her to be – I’m finding there’s lots of these Big Fish in Small Ponds sort of writers whom I never hear about but once I read them it turns out every one has read them already, but is just, I don’t [...]
