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Tor Books
January 2012
On Sale: January 3, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0765331721
EAN: 9780765331724
Kindle: B0044781T2
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Fiction Family Life | Science Fiction
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among
Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman
struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary
of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy
and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient
enchantment. Raised by a half-mad mother who
dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two
worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the
spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her
mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels
that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to
bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to
confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and
her twin sister dead. Fleeing to her father whom she
barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England–a
place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and
alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an
attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her
magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about
a reckoning that could no longer be put off…
Combining elements of autobiography with flights of
imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethem’s
The Fortress of Solitude, this is potentially a
breakout book for an author whose genius has already been
hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula
K. Le Guin.
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