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Jane Lindskold, ARTEMIS AWAKENING, (Tor, Hardcover, $24.99) Saturday, June 7th at 3:00 pm
Greg van Eekhout, CALIFORNIA BONES, (Tor, Hardcover, $24.99) Wednesday, June 11th at 7:00 pm
Jo Walton, MY REAL CHILDREN, (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99) Saturday, June 14th at 3:00 pm
James S.A. Corey, CIBOLA BURN (Orbit, Hardcover, $27.00) Saturday, June 21st at 3:00 pm
Juliet Blackwell, A VISION IN VELVET (Signet, Mass Market, $7.99) Kate
Carlisle, THE BOOK STOPS HERE (New American Library, Hardcover, $24.95),
and Gigi Pandian, PIRATE VISHNU (Henery Press, Trade Paperback, $15.95)
Saturday, July 12th at 3:00 pm
MP Johnson, DUNGEONS AND DRAG QUEENS (Eraserhead Press, Trade Paperback) Sunday, July 13th at 3:00 pm
Richard Lupoff, WRITER VOL. 1 (Ramble House, Hardcover, $32.00, and
Trade Paperback, $18.00), WRITER VOL. 2 (Ramble House, Hardcover,
$32.00, and Trade Paperback, $20.00) & WHAT IF? VOL. 3 (Ramble
House, Hardcover, $32.00, and Trade Paperback, $18.00) Saturday, July
19th at 3:00 pm
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News
* Overheard in the Store:
"The moral of the story is pretty much 'Gravity wins'."
"It's worse . . . they don't show up and break your kneecaps, they come to your house and repossess your cat."
* Overheard at the Nebulas
"I don't think I trust squid from a truck."
"But he was seated next to [famous & famously grumpy author], so anyone looks like Santa Claus that way."
"Yay, San Jose. The Gateway to Gilroy."
"Oooh -- robot curtains!"
"I just want to make it perfectly clear that I don't know f**k about s** t."
* Alfonso Cuaron, (whose most recent film GRAVITY is
amazing) is now rumored to have been offered first refusal rights to
direct OVERLOOK HOTEL, the prequel to Stephen King's THE SHINING.
Cuaron is one of the few directors who could probably make this
watchable -- let's hope he takes it. http://schmoesknow.com/hot-scoop-will-alfonso-cuaron-book-a-room-at-the-overlook-hotel/23609/
* We regret to report the death of author Jay Lake on June 1st.
Jay used to come and write in-store in front of an audience,
collaborating with artists Alan Clark and Paul Groendes to produce
almost-instant books.
From The Office
What Sword and Sorcery Is To Me
by Jeremy Lassen
For a long time I've heard various fantasy labels used
interchangeably. High Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy, Sword
and Sorcery . . . with newer bastardizations thrown in like Low Fantasy
and Dark Fantasy, and, absurdly, Grim-Dark Fantasy. Oftentimes, a
favorite label is just a shorthand for "stuff I like" with a
hodge-podge of disparate works crammed into a poorly-fitting box.
The only truly useful and pretty clearly delineated labels I know of for
the fantasy genre are Portal Fantasy, Secondary World Fantasy, and
Historical Fantasy. A good example of Portal Fantasy is The
Chronicles of Narnia. There is OUR world and there is a world
where fantastic stuff takes place that is categorically NOT our world,
and there is some artifact, or device, or doorway (a portal of sorts)
that connects the two.
Secondary World Fantasy is what most people think of when they think of
fantasy fiction. It's Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series: a world
that is a close analog to ours, but it is NOT ours, and doesn't pretend
to be.
Historical Fantasy is the fantasy that purports to take place in our
world but has elements of the fantastic intruding into it.
Arthurian fiction of all stripes fall into this category.
For me Sword and Sorcery is the bastard child both historical fiction,
and secondary world fantasy -- both in terms of its literary roots, and,
in some cases, in terms of its setting. Though not known by a large
audience, Harold Lamb's Khlit the Cossack fiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlit_the_Cossack)
is often cited by scholars and authors as being proto-sword and
sorcery. It influenced Robert. E. Howard and his Conan tales, with
Howard himself citing Lamb as a favorite.
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (http://sf-encyclopedia.co.uk/fe.php?nm=sword_and_sorcery)
provides the etymology of the term sword and sorcery (Fritz Leiber
coined it, at the prompting of Michael Moorcock), and also suggests
another link between historical adventure fiction and sword and sorcery:
Alexander Dumas as literary antecedent to sword and sorcery fiction.
I find these two points very interesting.
First, the Dumas connection, and the link to adventure fiction: The
Conan stories are considered to be a foundation of the sword and sorcery
genre, and its author still felt the need to articulate a relationship
between our world and the fantastic world of Conan. Howard's
essay, The Hyborian Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hyborian_Age),
details how the Conan stories (and indeed several other of Howard's
creations) are temporally and geographically linked to our world.
This impulse on Howard's part, to my mind further cements the
cross-fertilization between the fantasy genre and the historical
adventure genre. Howard's contemporary readers -- the readers of
Weird Tales -- were quite likely readers of Adventure magazine, where
Lamb's Cossack tales were published. Howard was writing for the
same audience, and knew what their expectations where. Indeed
Howard himself wrote many non-fantastic historical adventure stories and
several unsold mundane adventure stories were revised into Conan
stories, as the demand for his fantasy work outpaced the demand for
mundane adventures.
Another way to look at this "pre-history" conceit is to see it as a
narrative tool akin to the portal fantasy trope (secondary world fantasy
was not a clearly developed genre when Howard was writing). In a
post-Tolkien world, many readers are conversant with the narrative
conventions of a world that is "like ours, but not really ours."
Prior to the widespread popularity of this form, readers would
find themselves asking "How did we get from here to there . . . ?"
Howard's construction of the Hyborian Age tried to answer that
question. Oral histories, found manuscripts, and mythology lie
under the foundations of fantasy fiction. And sword and sorcery,
in its infancy, often pulled out the "pre-history" card. Later,
this trope was used as an homage to this pre-history tradition.
(One could even argue that one of the bastard offspring of this
"pre-history" fantasy form is the "Dying Earth" or Post-History
narratives, many of which are considered to be firmly in the sword and
sorcery stable.)
The other reason I find the Fantasy Encyclopedia entry interesting is
because the etymology of the term clearly shows that is a term used by
authors and editors, trying to define and come up with labels to
describe the things they were doing. Writers, critics and editors
in most fields engage in "long conversations" in which topics that are
first discussed in small groups spread across the whole field over a
period of months or years because of the essential nature of the topic
to the field. Topics like that mature over time and often reach a
consensus conclusion without any real guidance or agenda. And,
throughout, that sort of conversation shapes the stories that are
written. I find the organic nature of these "long conversation"
terms to be very alluring (as opposed to literary terms that come from
outside the genre, or are applied retroactively to a group of writers
and their works). They might be filled with contradictions and
littered with fine lines that are only discernible to fellow travelers,
but they are not bounded by arbitrary rules and categories. They
are not terms meant to keep stories in separate boxes but instead these
terms allow for and promote literary miscegenation and the
cross-pollination of ideas. And that's exactly what Sword and
Sorcery is -- a confluence of specific fantasy archetypes. With
each generation, some part of the form is changed and altered, but the
works preserve a similar-but-evolving aesthetic purpose, from generation
to generation.
And what is that purpose? That gets to the title of this little
essay. I can't speak for others, but for me, when I first
discovered them, Sword and Sorcery stories were tales of agency.
They served a similar purpose to superhero fiction; the archetype
of the "hyper-competent loner" is often at the center of Sword and
Sorcery and it serves a very specific pre-adolescent and adolescent
need. Which is why, like many "empowerment fantasies", it is often
enthusiastically consumed by younger readers. And if you never
discovered the soulful allure of "blood and thunder" as a young reader,
you may not ever come to appreciate its subtle nuance as an adult.
The other essential component of Sword and Sorcery is that it is
character driven. When describing heroic fantasy, people often
cite the works by character name, rather than by setting or by title.
That naming convention is not a constant but its frequency does
emphasize the character focus of these types of stories. There can
be world building and exotic locales, but the focus is always on the
protagonists.
Much like the superhero genre, Sword and Sorcery has been reexamined and
remixed and expanded beyond its archetypal form. Siegal and
Shuster's Superman gave birth to Frank Miller and Alan Moore and Grant
Morrison, the same way that Howard's Conan gave birth to Michael
Moorcock and Karl Edward Wagner and Richard Morgan.
Did you like the way I threw that last name in there? Morgan
(though often thought of as a writer of science fiction first) is doing
an amazing job of keeping the Sword and Sorcery flame alive, via his
series of novels A Land Fit for Heroes. I was lucky enough to read the
first incarnation of Morgan's novel, The Steel Remains. It was
originally a short story written for The Magazine and Fantasy and
Science Fiction. This rejected story was more of a vignette, and
was essentially the first chapter of The Steel Remains. In my
mind, Morgan stands shoulder to shoulder with Moorcock and Leiber,
participating in and perpetuating a long conversation. The impulse
to use the furniture of Sword and Sorcery to say something unique and
different about the nature of power and violence and agency is a big
part of what that sub-genre is about.
Moorcock famously cast his Elric narratives "against type". That is,
while Conan was a muscular barbarian who hated civilization, Elric was
physically weak and frail member of the royal family from a decadent
empire. Morgan did the same with his character Ringil, taking the
assumed heterosexuality of fantasy protagonists and turning it on its
head. Even more fitting, the homo-erotic subtext of a lot of Sword
and Sorcery fiction is elevated to an over-text, with an unflinching
narrative eye.
So how did we get from there to her, and what else is here now?
I've already pointed out Harold Lamb's Khlit the Cossack. He
clearly begat Robert E. Howard's Conan. And a direct descendent
of Conan was Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser story cycle.
It is fitting that this duo begot two new-wave Sword and Sorcery
giants -- Karl Edward Wagner's Kane, an Michael Moorcock's Elric of
Melnibone. From these two characters, one can see the line that
goes to Charles Saunder's Imaro, straight (sorry for the anti-pun) on to
Morgan's Ringil. Saunders and Morgan both reflect each other
quite clearly, featuring as they do, heroic fantasy protagonists that
embody a cultural other, (in the sense of the world the characters
inhabit,) as well as "other" when measured against the often-presumed
straight/white readership of fantasy fiction.
One great novel of relatively recent vintage that clearly draws the
connections between Sword and Sorcery and the historical adventure
fiction of Alexander Dumas is Ellen Kushner's Riverside series,
beginning with Swordspoint. Though this novel fails to provide the
"sorcery" part of the equation, it is a clearly secondary world fantasy,
and it is very much character driven. And it features Kushner
blowing up fantasy fiction's assumed-sexuality norms long before Morgan
got there.
Another recent novel that revels in its "Dumas-ness" is Scott Lynch's
Lies of Locke Lamora, which quite literally embraces the
character-name-as-title trope I referred to earlier.
Steven Erickson has his sprawling epic fantasy Malazan series, but
within that world he has the story cycle of Bauchelain and Korbal
Broach. The black humor and story structure of these works is
clearly an homage to the classic Sword and Sorcery form in general, and
to Fritz Leiber specifically.
Others who are playing around with Sword and Sorcery tropes who should
not be missed include K. J. Parker, Courtney Schaffer, Joe Abercrombie,
and Jeff Salyards.
Obviously there are many other characters and works that exist in the
lineage of the authors I've mentioned. From C. L. Moore to Manly Wade
Wellman, L. Sprague de camp, Lin Carter and on and on . . . there are
far too many to list here. But one very good way to explore these
gaps is via short fiction. Sword and Sorcery anthologies have been
a staple of the publishing industry for many decades now, and they are
an amazing resource that can convey the very broad spectrum of the Sword
and Sorcery sub-genre.
First up I'd point to the recent Hartwell and Weisman anthology, "The
Sword and Sorcery Anthology." I'm a fan the functional minimalism
of this title, and I'm also a big fan of the overview provided by David
Drake's introduction. His combination of first hand accounts of
authors and editors, and his clear, concise scholarship is a treasure.
That, and the broad, representative range of stories makes this
book essential reading, IMO.
Another good historical overview is In Lands That Never Were: Tales of
Swords and Sorcery from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
which collects the best S&S from The Magazine of F&SF.
An original anthology of recent vintage is Jonathan Strahan and Lou
Ander's Swords and Dark Magic. This is a great example of
contemporary authors being cognizant of the long genre conversation that
they are a part of.
Going further back, one can find the five volume Flashing Swords series
(1973-1981) of anthologies edited by Lin Carter, which featured
then-original fiction by then-contemporary writers, like Leiber, Vance,
Moorcock and many others. Older reprint anthologies include L.
Sprague de Camp's The Spell of Seven and Karl Wagner's Echoes of Valor
series. Jessica Amanda Salmonson had a series of "Amazon"
anthologies that are also noteworthy.
Finally, I urge all of you to contact Mary Robinette Kowal, and ask her
to write the novel she threatened to unleash upon the world with this
April Fools spoof: "Sword and Sensibility" (http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/04/sword-and-sensibility-conan-creator-robert-e-howards-lesser-known-collaboration).
When she announced the title of her recent novel, Valour and
Vanity, I was convinced she had taken a suggestion of mine seriously.
You see, we had spent a long car ride together, where she picked
my brain about Conan and Robert E. Howard. I told her the Conan
story "Queen of the Black Coast" would make the best Jane Austen/Robert
E. Howard literary mash up ever. When I found out Valour and
Vanity WASN'T a Conan-novel-as-written-by-Jane-Austen, I was devastated.
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Book Club Info
The QSF&F Book Club will meet on Sunday, June 8th, at 5 pm to
discuss HORNS by Joe Hill. Please contact the group leader,
Christopher Rodriguez, at cobalt555@earthlink.net, for more information.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club will meet on Sunday, June
15th, at 6 pm to discuss WOOL by Hugh Howey. The book for July is
MAKERS by Cory Doctorow. Please contact
bookclub@borderlands-books.com for more information.
Upcoming Event Details
Jane Lindskold, ARTEMIS AWAKENING, (Tor, Hardcover, $24.99) Saturday,
June 7th at 3:00 pm - Celebrated author Jane Lindskold launches an
entirely new series with ARTEMIS AWAKENING. Publishers Weekly
described it as: ". . . paying homage to golden-age SF by authors like
Andre Norton, Leigh Brackett, and C.L. Moore. . .", which invokes fallen
interstellar empires, genetically altered animals (and humans), and a
race to rediscover everything humanity has lost. From the
publisher's website: "The distant world Artemis is a pleasure planet
created out of bare rock by a technologically advanced human empire that
provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All
tech was concealed and the animals (and the humans brought to live
there) were bioengineered to help the guests enjoy their stay. . . but
there was always the possibility of danger so that visitors could brag
that they had “bested” the environment. The Empire was shattered
in a horrific war; centuries later humanity has lost much of the
advanced technology and Artemis is a fable told to children. Until
young archeologist Griffin Dane finds intriguing hints that send him on
a quest to find the lost world. Stranded on Artemis after crashing his
ship, he encounters the Huntress Adara and her psych-linked companion,
the puma Sand Shadow. Their journey with her will lead Dane to discover
the planet’s secrets. . . and perhaps provide a key to give unimagined
power back to mankind."
Greg van Eekhout, CALIFORNIA BONES, (Tor, Hardcover, $24.99) Wednesday,
June 11th at 7:00 pm - Greg van Eekhout lives in Los Angeles and is the
author of many short stories and several novels including NORSE CODE and
the charmingly titled middle-grade adventure KID VS. SQUID.
However, I have to admit I'm most excited about his new novel CALIFORNIA
BONES. Here's the publisher's description: "When Daniel Blackland
was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine
plucked out of the sand during a visit with his demanding, brilliant,
and powerful magician father, Sebastian. Then, when Daniel was twelve,
he watched Sebastian die at the hands of the Hierarch of Southern
California, devoured for the heightened magic layered deep within his
bones. Now thirty, Daniel is a petty thief with a forged identity.
Hiding amid the crowds in Los Angeles -- the capital of the Kingdom of
Southern California -- he is trying to go straight. But his crime-boss
uncle has a heist for Daniel to undertake: break into the the Hierarch’s
storehouse of magical artifacts and retrieve Sebastian’s sword, an
object of untold power. Daniel assembles a trustworthy team
of his closest friends from the criminal world. Moth, who can
take a bullet and heal in mere minutes. Jo Morales, illusionist. The
multitalented Cassandra, Daniel’s ex. And, new to them all, the
enigmatic, knowledgeable Emma, with her British accent and her own
grudge against the powers-that-be. The stakes are high, and the stage is
set for a showdown that might just break the magic that protects a
long-corrupt regime. Extravagant, inventive, and shot through with
moments of intensity as bright as the California sun, Daniel’s story is
an epic adventure set in a city of canals and secrets and casual
brutality -- different from the world we know, and yet also familiar and
true." We're looking forward to hosting Greg and checking out
this incredible book; we certainly hope you'll join us!
Jo Walton, MY REAL CHILDREN, (Tor, Hardcover, $25.99) Saturday June 14th
at 3:00 pm - In MY REAL CHILDREN, her first new novel since 2011's
AMONG OTHERS (which won both the Nebula Award and Hugo Award for Best
Novel) Jo Walton explores two different worlds and a woman who can't be
sure which is real. From the publisher's website: "It’s 2015, and
Patricia Cowan is very old. 'Confused today,' read the notes clipped to
the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know -- what
year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she
remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying
Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark
and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the
bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in
1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out
Miami and Kiev. Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the
Second World War -- those were solid things. But after that, did
she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or
Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage
after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes
in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it
host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear
missiles? Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history;
each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs."
James S.A. Corey, CIBOLA BURN (Orbit, Hardcover, $27.00) Saturday June
21st at 3:00 pm - Come join Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck (collectively
known as James S.A. Corey) as they celebrate the release of CIBOLA BURN
with a Q&A and signing at Borderlands! CIBOLA BURN is the fourth
book in their series The Expanse, which has been nominated for various
awards and was recently optioned as a TV series for Syfy. Fun,
exciting space opera with mysterious galactic history and complex
characters awaits. From the publisher's website: "The gates have
opened the way to a thousand new worlds and the rush to colonize has
begun. Settlers looking for a new life stream out from humanity’s
home planets. Illus, the first human colony on this vast new
frontier, is being born in blood and fire. Independent settlers
stand against the overwhelming power of a corporate colony ship with
only their determination, courage and the skills learned in the long
wars of home. Innocent scientists are slaughtered as they try to
survey a new and alien world. James Holden and the crew of his one
small ship are sent to make peace in the midst of war and sense in the
heart of chaos. But the more he looks at it, the more Holden
thinks the mission was meant to fail. And the whispers of a dead
man remind him that the great galactic civilization which once stood on
this land is gone. And that something killed them."
Juliet Blackwell, A VISION IN VELVET (Signet, Mass Market, $7.99) Kate
Carlisle, THE BOOK STOPS HERE (New American Library, Hardcover, $24.95),
and Gigi Pandian, PIRATE VISHNU (Henery Press, Trade Paperback, $15.95)
Saturday, July 12th at 3:00 pm - Do you like witches or
pirates? (We know you like books!) Why choose when you can
enjoy all three at this event? Juliet Blackwell, Kate Carlisle,
and Gigi Pandian return to their respective series, with even more
mystery, magic and pirates. Come celebrate the release of
three books! In A VISION IN VELVET, the sixth in Blackwell's
Witchcraft Mystery series, Lily must save someone very important to her,
her pot-bellied pig familiar Oscar. A witch is reaching out from
the past, through her velvet cloak, and it's up to Lily to decide
whether she is friend or foe and to prepare to fight if she must.
In THE BOOK STOPS HERE, rare-book expert and appraiser Brooklyn
Wainwright is thrilled to be appearing on the San Francisco edition of
the hit TV show This Old Attic. Her first subject is a very
valuable (and likely very dangerous) first-edition copy of The Secret
Garden. Then the show's host, Randolph, is accosted by an angry
man who says the book was purchased on the cheap at his garage sale, and
he wants it back, or else. Can she protect Randolph and
herself? The past also reaches out in PIRATE VISHNU, Pandian's
second Jaya Jones mystery. Historian Jones is stuck not only
dealing with her complicated love life but also trying to solve two
murders a century apart and decipher a treasure map left by one of her
ancestors, the Pirate Vishnu of the title. If she succeeds she
could very well rediscover sacred jewels thought lost forever . .
. and if she fails she could end up being the next one to walk the
plank.
MP Johnson, DUNGEONS AND DRAG QUEENS (Eraserhead Press, Trade Paperback)
Sunday July 13th at 3:00 pm - Borderlands is proud and tickled as pink
as Ms. LaRuse's wig to welcome MP Johnson for the release for his latest
work, DUNGEONS AND DRAG QUEENS. It is quite simply everything
you've always wanted in a fantasy novel and didn't know how to ask
for. Drag Queens! Wizards! Monsters! Fabulous Wigs! And more! When
Sleazella LaRuse, the reigning queen-of-queens of Green Bay, ends up in
a completely different world as the intended bride of the serpent god
Houmak, she must use all of her guile, skills, and lip-synching prowess
to make her way, survive and maybe find love along the way. A delicious
mix of irreverent humor, sword-and-sorcery and Drag-attude. Even
if you've never been into drag you'll be into this simply because it's a
great adventure story that never goes where you expect.
Richard Lupoff, WRITER VOL. 1 (Ramble House, Trade Paperback, $18.00),
WRITER VOL. 2 (Ramble House, Trade Paperback, $20.00) & WHAT IF?
VOL. 3 (Ramble House, Trade Paperback, $18.00) Saturday July 19th at
3:00 pm - Celebrated author Dick Lupoff comes to Borderlands for the
release of three books. Read behind-the-scenes stories of triumphs
and hardships in WRITER VOL. 1 & 2. Memoir, criticism,
analysis and anecdotes combine and inform each other and give the reader
a real idea of what it means to be a working writer for 60 years.
If you've enjoyed Richard Lupoff's work in the past, dig into these
books to see what was happening behind the stories. Lupoff is also
presenting the long awaited WHAT IF? VOL. 3, decades after VOL. 1 &
2. Lupoff returns to collect stories that were eligible for the
Hugo, and in Lupoff's opinion should have won. Collecting stories
from 1966-1973, it includes works by Joanna Russ, Samuel Delany, Gene
Wolfe, Ursula LeGuin, and more!
Borderlands event policy - all events are free of charge unless
otherwise stated. You are welcome to bring copies of an author's
books purchased elsewhere to be autographed (but we do appreciate it if
you purchase something while at the event). For most events you
are welcome to bring as many books as you wish for autographs. If
you are unable to attend the event we will be happy to have a copy of
any of the author's available books signed or inscribed for you.
We can then either hold the book(s) until you can come in to pick them
up or we can ship to you. Just give us a call or drop us an
email. If you live out of town, you can also ship us books from
your collection to be signed for a nominal fee. Call or email for
details.
Dispatches from the Border
Editor - Jude Feldman
Assistant Editor - Alan Beatts
Contributor - Jeremy Lassen
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