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bibliogramma) wrote2008-06-15 05:08 pm
bibliogramma) wrote2008-06-15 05:08 pm
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Resurrection
Gentle reader may recall my wrath and sorrow upon learning that the planned publication by Night Shade books of the third previously published volume in Charles Saunders' Imaro saga, and plans to publish new works in both the Imaro saga and in the Dossouye saga (beginning with a book containing all the previously released short stories about Saunder's bold and cunning warrior woman) had been cancelled.
Well, I'm a very happy woman again. Saunders has joined with Sword & Soul Media to release the last of the original Imaro books, The Trail of Bohu and brand new volumes continuing the series. And just as wonderful, the first of the Sword & Soul Media/Saunders releases is the promise collection of Dossouye stories.
Dossouye, by Charles R. Sanuders, is now available at LuLu.com.
Can you hear me dancing for joy?
Of course, I ordered the book the very minute that I discovered it was available. And counted the minutes until it arrived. and now I have my very own copy.
Saunders has extensively revised the first of the Dossouye stories, "Abegwe's Sword" to give the reader more of his hero's backstory. We learn how Dossouye was trained to be one of the women warriors of the kingdom of Abomey, how she saves her people but is forced to go into exile by treachery, and more about her family and culture. The collection also contains the other three Dossouye stories written in the 1980s, "Gimmile’s Songs," "Shiminege’s Mask," and "Marwe’s Forest," and the story "Yohimba's Choice" the Saunders wrote in 2004 for the second of the Dark Matter anthologies edited by Sheree Renee Thomas. And there is a new Dossouye story, "Obenga’s Drum."
Dossouye is a marvellous creation, for me even more so than Saunders' Imaro precisely because she is a woman, and Saunders does an excellent job of writing her, not as a "man with breasts," which is how some female fantasy warriors have been written, but as a warrior who is a woman - a subtle difference, perhaps, but a meaningful and welcome one.
Well, I'm a very happy woman again. Saunders has joined with Sword & Soul Media to release the last of the original Imaro books, The Trail of Bohu and brand new volumes continuing the series. And just as wonderful, the first of the Sword & Soul Media/Saunders releases is the promise collection of Dossouye stories.
Dossouye, by Charles R. Sanuders, is now available at LuLu.com.
Can you hear me dancing for joy?
Of course, I ordered the book the very minute that I discovered it was available. And counted the minutes until it arrived. and now I have my very own copy.
Saunders has extensively revised the first of the Dossouye stories, "Abegwe's Sword" to give the reader more of his hero's backstory. We learn how Dossouye was trained to be one of the women warriors of the kingdom of Abomey, how she saves her people but is forced to go into exile by treachery, and more about her family and culture. The collection also contains the other three Dossouye stories written in the 1980s, "Gimmile’s Songs," "Shiminege’s Mask," and "Marwe’s Forest," and the story "Yohimba's Choice" the Saunders wrote in 2004 for the second of the Dark Matter anthologies edited by Sheree Renee Thomas. And there is a new Dossouye story, "Obenga’s Drum."
Dossouye is a marvellous creation, for me even more so than Saunders' Imaro precisely because she is a woman, and Saunders does an excellent job of writing her, not as a "man with breasts," which is how some female fantasy warriors have been written, but as a warrior who is a woman - a subtle difference, perhaps, but a meaningful and welcome one.