#mirror empire

[zelda-tempest]

is there a Worldbreaker Saga fandom on tumblr?

[meandering-monotreme]

no no she's just a girl and Gian is no I refuse everything is okay you can't take that from me Gian is okay the granddaughters ok everything is fine it's fine (nononononononono)

[kammartinez]

He's just a young man, she told herself, but it had been a good long while since she saw a man with the proportions of some passionate sculpture dripping naked beside a fountain.

from The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga #1), by Kameron Hurley

[kammartinez]

People do not take actions based on logic. We make choices based on emotion. Every one of us. Then we use what we call logic to justify our choices. People don't do things that make sense.

from The Mirror Empire (Worldbreaker Saga , by Kameron Hurley

[builttagontough]

Read-A-Thon Update #2

291 of 449. Things are starting to pull together. I can feel the climax starting to build into something real. Taigan continues to be one of my favorite characters. Really though. TAIGAN.

[staffersbookreview]

Forgotten Future: The Stories We’re Missing

Forgotten Future: The Stories We’re Missing

art by Richard Anderson

My first epic fantasy novel, The Mirror Empire, came out this month. It was one of over 300 other science and fiction books that came out this month. That doesn’t count self-published titles. It also doesn’t count the other story media vying for our attention today – new video games, television shows, and movies. The world is a noisy place, and the reality is that it’s…

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[ecnef]

MIRROR EMPIRE Blog Tour

Or, blogs I'll be visiting over the next while: 8/19 “On Invisibility and Assumptions: Finding Distance in Writing About Chronic Illness” Hosted by SF Signal: Special Needs in Strange Worlds 8/21 ”Gender, Family, Nookie: The Speculative Frontier” Hosted at Ladybusiness 8/22 “Tea, Bodies and Business: Remaking the Hero Archetype” Hosted by Escape Artists Week of 8/25 8/25 “What We Didn’t See: Power, Protest, Story” Hosted by A Dribble of Ink 8/26 “My Favorite Bit: These Aren’t Your Typical Ents” Hosted by Mary Robinette Kowal 8/26 Barnes & Noble Promo Begins! Find out How to Get EMPIRE ASCENDANT (book 2 of the Worldbreaker saga) FREE! Hosted here at kameronhurley.com 8/27 “The Big Idea: When the Enemy’s Face is Yours” Hosted by John Scalzi 8/27 ”Thundercats Ho: 5 Things I Learned When I Stopped Worrying About Genre” Hosted by SF Signal 8/28 “Forgotten Future: The Stories We’re Missing” Hosted by Staffer’s Book Review 8/28 ”Building Fantastic Cultures: Beyond Dwarves and Elves” Hosted by Over the Effing Rainbow 8/29 ”Creative Creatures: Not Your Typical Houseplants” Hosted by The Quillery Week of 9/1 9/1 “Tough Cookies: On Dealing with Criticism” Hosted by the Waystone Owl Reviews 9/2 ”Not My Country: 7 Things I Learned About Worldbuilding from Traveling Abroad” Hosted by Violin in a Void 9/2 “My Superpower” Hosted by Skiffy and Fanty 9/3 Interview with me will be up at Fantasy Faction 9/3 “Beyond He-Man and She-ra: Writing Non-Binary Characters”Hosted by Daniel Franklin 9/4 Reddit AMA! (UK release day) 9/4 ”Surviving the Game: Writing as Business” Hosted by Chuck Wendig 9/4 ”There is No Genre, Only Story” Hosted by SFF World Week of 9/8 9/8 ”My Murder Board, Let Me Show You It: Plotting an Epic Fantasy” Hosted by Bristol Book Blog 9/9 “The Epic POV: How Many Characters is Too Many?” Hosted by Brian Staveley 9/9 TBD Hosted by Charlie Stross 9/10 “Anavha’s Lament: Gender Expectations for Male Characters” Hosted by Matthew Scott Baker 9/11 TBD Hosted by Charlie Stross 9/11 “Making the Familiar Extraordinary: Tips for Creating Worlds We’ve Never Seen” Hosted by Books, Bones, Buffy 9/12 ”Bug Magic & Satellite Mages: Writing Magic Systems that Stand Out” Hosted by Poisoned Rationality Week of 9/15 9/15 ”Deconstructing Raisa: How I Built the World of The Mirror Empire” Hosted by My Bookish Ways 9/16 “Why I Stopped Writing About White People” Hosted by Far Beyond Reality 9/16 ”The Family You Know But Never See: Polyamory, Polygyny and Polygamy in SFF” Hosted by Bad Ass Book Reviews 9/17 ”On Making People Care: Storytelling in Fiction vs Marketing” Hosted by A Fantastical Librarian 9/18 “That Was Awesome: OMFG City of Stairs by Robert J. Bennett” Hosted by Tor.com 9/19 “The Story Behind the Story: Mirroring an Empire” Hosted by Upcoming4Me

[staffersbookreview]

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley

Kameron Hurley wrote a book called God’s War. It won her the 2011 Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, presented by the British Fantasy Society, and the 2011 Kitschies for Best Debut Novel. It was also nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Nebula award, shortlisted for a Locus Award for Best Debut Novel, and made the Tiptree Award Honor List. In…

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