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Lynda Williams

Lynda Williams

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I am a science fiction/fantasy author with a ten-novel series based with Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing in Calgary. My day job is in educational technology. I have three children, two in high school and one in post-secondary training. I'm married. I do book reviews.
  • Prince George, BC, Canada
  • member since August 23, 2007

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  • Darkborn
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A richly detailed, original fantasy setting - magic written with the integrity of science.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Wednesday, July 14, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • In The Palace Of Repose
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The stories in this anthology employ the motifs of speculative fiction to explore the mirky world of the unconscious, clothed in the details of each new excursion. Read them the first time for the story and the second time for the resonances. ”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Saturday, January 2, 2010. ( reply | permalink )
  • Lyranel's Song
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Lyranel's Song will always invoke for me the pleasure of reading it aloud to my daughter Tegan and her frield Julie when they were about 10 or 12. A gentle story with good characterization set in a medieval fantasy world in which magic is bound up in singing. Lyranel discovers family, friends and purpose as she grows into adult responsibilities.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Friday, December 25, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Thorns
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Beauty and the beast story in which the beast was created by alien mad doctors and beauty was brutalized, emotionally, by medical human reproductive experiments. Read it as a teenager with far more sensitivity and interest so I'm sure it was an influence. Felt flat reading it as an adult. ”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Wednesday, December 23, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The King's Daughters

    The King's Daughters

    by Nathalie Mallet
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Lively sequel to "Princes of the Golden Cage" by Nathalie Mallet, set this time in someplace not entirely unlike Russia.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Wednesday, December 2, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Dying Poem
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A prose poem of a novel intelligently exploring the interior world of a suicide from multiple points of view. An journey into the human condition, its relationship to art, and what we can possibly mean to each other in our separate solitudes. ”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Tuesday, December 1, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Okal Rel Universe Anthology 2

    Okal Rel Universe Anthology 2

    by John Preet, editors Lynda Williams
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Second anthology from Windstorm Creative. Since reprinted by Absolute XPress line of Hades Publications.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Sunday, November 22, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Hard Times
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Not as grim as I'd feared. Well worth reading, but not wonderful the way much of his earlier work is.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Sunday, November 22, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • Twilight / New Moon / Eclipse / Breaking Dawn
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Enjoyed them. ”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Friday, November 20, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
  • The Rules of Perspective
    • Rated 3 stars

    “A clever achievement. The characterization is touchingly human. The overlapping lives of Herr Hoffer of Lohenfelde and G.I. Gorporal Parry unfold with literary virtuosity surrounding their shared spatial intersection and sub-stellar attachment to art. But the end sounds a flat note, to my ear. Perhaps the message is all that matters is having something to believe in whether it is ersatz or not. Perhaps the message is to live every moment as if it were your last. But a wily reader might, with justice, take away from it the conviction it is safer not to care about anyone or anything, and for my taste that's a pathetic view of the human condition that I shudder to see reinforced through art. ”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Sunday, November 8, 2009. ( reply | permalink )
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