Sylvia Kelso is an author of both

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and

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, usually set in analogue or outright

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n landscapes. She has a Creative Writing MA built around one science-fiction novel using alternate

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s and she earned her Ph.D. in 1997. Kelso's novels are densely descriptive, the worlds complex and minutely constructed, the environments, lush or bleak, brought alive with poetic force. Her critical interests cover: Feminist Theory and History, Gothic and Horror Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Women's Writing. There are some stylistic similarities to the works of

Patricia A. McKillip Patricia Anne McKillip (February 29, 1948 – May 6, 2022) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. She wrote predominantly standalone fantasy novels and has been called "one of the most accomplished prose stylists in the fantasy ge ...

Bibliography

Novels

* The Rihannar Chronicles, Book 1: Everran's Bane

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* The Rihannar Chronicles, Book 2: The Moving Water

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* The Rihannar Chronicles, Book 3: The Red Country

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* Amberlight ctober 2007* Riversend equel to Amberlight, 2009* Source

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* The Solitaire Ghost une 2011* The Time Seam ovember 2011

Non-fiction

* Three Observations and a Dialogue Round and About SF queduct Press, May 2009

External links

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