At the end of Well of Shiuan the many thousand refugees of a doomed world pour through the open Shiuan Gate into a new world. The consequences are dealt with here, and here lies Morgaine and Vanye's most difficult and unpleasant task yet.The world of the Azeroth Gate, or at least its immediate v...
3.5 starsI really like Science-Fantasy. It’s not surprising I guess given that two of my favourite genres are the mainstays of the wider umbrella ‘speculative fiction’: sci-fi and fantasy, so the mash-up of the two would seem to be a no-brainer, right? Normally science-fantasy stories tend to hav...
Exiles Gate is the fourth and final outing in CJ Cherryh's Morgaine saga; the first three stories having been published under one title, the Chronicles of Morgaine. My copy was a fairly elderly one, tatty, worn out and dogeared, having survived about six house moves, numerous car-boot-sale culls ...
I bought this book recently, and as happened with another of this author's books, found that I'd owned it before, in the 80s. The story of young woman who loots a tomb and is then followed home by an enigmatic armored warrior. Once the warrior leaves she (deciding that her life is one she doesn't...