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Lynda Williams

Lynda Williams

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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  • 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 6 days ago. ( reply | permalink )
  • Thorns

    Thorns

    by Robert Silverberg
    • 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 8 days ago. ( 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 4 weeks ago. ( 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 )
  • The Twilight Saga
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Enjoyed them. ”

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

    The Rules of Perspective

    by Adam Thorpe
    • 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 )
  • Second Life: The Official Guide
    • Rated 4 stars

    “Great intro to Second Life accessible to anyone.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Friday, November 16 2007. ( reply | permalink )
  • Just FolksJust Folks
    • Rated 3 stars

    “Reading a poem or two a night before bed and finding the dated sentimentality refreshing despite the paternalistic, pre-women's lib attitudes towards women. Reading Guest is like entertaining a gentleman visitor from another age. I always liked poems that told stories. Through his, I see a world very different from ours and yet universal in its concerns from the love of a child to fretting about how fast the world is changing.”

    Lynda Williams wrote this review Tuesday, November 6 2007. ( reply | permalink )
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