[nesfa-reading-group] NESFA Reading Group

[Wesley Brodsky]

The book for 04 October 2024 is:
Patricia McKillip, "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld" (1974). One of the first modern fantasies to completely ignore the heroic model of everyone from Tolkien to Terry Brooks, without the grunge that some writers think is obligatory these days; the main character is a 3rd-generation wizard who lives quietly on a mountaintop, occasionally using her research to call another unusual sentient animal to her as her predecessors did. Then someone comes panting up the mountain in the midst of lowland chaos to hand her a baby; some years later she gets caught up in the results of that chaos and has to make difficult choices.
   
Richard Schwartz is to propose 3 books for November 2024
Gloria Lucia Albasi is to propose 3 books for December 2024
   
Wes Brodsky 
"It is of the utmost importance that Concepts not trouble you with silliness or complications, unless you are searching for really difficult work."; Giordano Bruno (1582)