Stewards of the Flame

[altariel]

To my great excitement, one of my favourite authors, Sylvia Engdahl, is publishing a new novel, her first in 26 years.

Sylvia Engdahl's novel The Far Side of Evil was my most important reading experience as a child, after The Lord of the Rings. It may be the book that turned me into a sociologist. A heavy responsibility to lay at anyone's door. I think Ursula Le Guin might have had a hand in it too.

The new novel is called Stewards of the Flame (yes I know!) and is intended as an adult novel. edge_of_ruin, you are first up to borrow it.

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[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeee!

*gibbers with excitement*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I know!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I dreamt last night that I was back in the library of the town where I grew up, and there on the shelves were the Engdahl books, and I was just reaching for the copy of The Far Side of Evil because I wanted to see the original (UK publication) cover again, and it was Very Important that I should do so at that time, on account of it would save the world or something like that, and then the dream shifted, and I can only assume the world fizzled out.

My subconscious is very annoying at times.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Gah! Gah! I often have those dreams where I am extremely happy in a huge library of joy, and then wake up. It's very frustrating.

I couldn't find a picture of the original UK cover online to link to, unfortunately, although I do have that edition on the shelf upstairs.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

I also have dreams where I have either read or written the most perfect book ever, and then I wake up in the dream, and it all fades away, just like Lucy in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. They are also frustrating, like the library dreams.

I'd gone looking for the Gollancz cover online, but I couldn't find it.