![]() ![]() The near-poetic style of writing helps to set the tone of the setting and culture, completing the otherworldly feel that the best of fantasy can achieve. And the language flows almost poetically, harkening back to an earlier time in epic fantasy and the likes of Le Guin and McKillip. It's simply that no word, no sentence, no paragraph is wasted. It's not that the book is without depth, or that the characters are lacking development, or that the world is not built well enough. ![]() It's an epic fantasy, the opening of the Eternal Sky trilogy, and it's only 334 pages long. The economy with which Bear writes Range of Ghostsstands out as one of the biggest triumphs of the book. ![]() Range of Ghosts shows Bear executing at her best - the economy and ease with which she unveils the story shows a mastery of her craft. Of course there's magic, an interesting set of very real gods that literally change the sky above, and a quest. Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear follows this new trend with inspiration from the Asian steppes, Mongol hordes, mountain Buddhists and desert caliphates. ![]()
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