5/30/2023 0 Comments Creatures of will and temper![]() ![]() And yet, embedded in it - woven so closely into the fabric of normalcy that almost no one can see it - Tanzer has given us. She has created a Victorian England which is, in all noticeable ways, exactly the Victorian England we know - the mother of our modern world, by turns smoky, smutty, gross and backward, then beautiful, wondrous and louche with the turn of a corner. ![]() Honestly, if that was the only thing Tanzer accomplished here, I'd be impressed. And when someone pulls it off as well as Molly Tanzer in her new novel, Creatures of Will and Temper, it's worth checking out just to see the restraint and careful worldbuilding gymnastics required. I'm just saying it's rare for a writer to be able to do one (insert a fantasy element into a historical setting) without doing the other (letting the dragons eat the townsfolk, thereby giving rise to Bert the Dragonbasher, hero of West Crudwell, or whatever). There are stories out there that have done wonders with their skewed versions of our shared past. ![]() Or Victorian England, but everyone wears cool goggles and has an airship!Īnd there's nothing wrong with that. ![]() It's Renaissance Italy, but with vampires. The biggest problem with most urban fantasy is that, by nature, it becomes alternate history. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Creatures of Will and Temper Author Molly Tanzer ![]()
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