Strange Horizons Reviews: Twenty Epics

Check out the Strange Horizons Review of Twenty Epics, edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi.

“Most successful is “Bound Man,” Mary Robinette Kowal’s stark re-humanization of the hero archetype. When the soldier-priest Halldór, hard-pressed by foes, chants the spell to summon the legendary warrior Li Reiko, he has no idea that he is in fact bringing her out of the past, separating her from her children and the life she knows and setting in motion the chain of events that leads to the development of his own culture. As she struggles to adapt to her new reality, Reiko’s grief and anger stand in sharp contrast to the usual devil-may-care attitude of mythical heroes.”

–reviewed by Rose Fox, Strange Horizons

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