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Biography Liz Williams is the daughter of a stage magician and a gothic novelist, and currently lives near Brighton seafront. She received a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge, and her subsequent career has ranged from reading tarot cards on the Palace Pier to teaching in central Asia. Her short stories have been published in Asimov's, Interzone, The Third Alternative and Visionary Tongue, and she is coeditor of the recent anthology Fabulous Brighton. Synopsis In the far-distant future a flooded and shattered Earth is governed by the iron hand of the Martian Matriarchy. Martian warrior Dreams-of-War is not pleased to be dispatched to Earth to guard a young girl called Lunae from an unknown threat. Review Earth is a shattered flooded remnant of what we know today, and is ruled from across space by others, from Mars. Genetic engineering of our species and others has reached such a stage that almost anything can – and has – been created, whilst “haunt-tech”, had mysteriously arrived from who knows where, changing everything. With the words of Liz offering us a vivid nightmare vision of what may come we find the tale of the warrior Dreams-Of-War, the strange young girl from Earth, Lunae, and the dark manipulative Yskatarina and her Animus – their threads intertwined and connected in an often twisted inside out and distorted sense of spirit, the past and the future. The shattering climax is one that left me turning page after page, recognising that beneath the words there was a deep and intuitive understanding of what spirit is, what our ancestors and our descendents owe us, what we owe them, and how Liz has reached deeply within herself to find this vision of possibility. To say more will spoil the story! Expertly and evocatively written, Liz has created a deeply disturbing yet wholly believable reality. This is a book I strongly recommend. Buy this book from amazon.co.uk
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