Sylvia Kelso is an author of both

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, usually set in analogue or outright

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n landscapes. She has a Creative Writing MA built around one science-fiction novel using alternate

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s and she earned her Ph.D. in 1997. Kelso's novels are densely descriptive, the worlds complex and minutely constructed, the environments, lush or bleak, brought alive with poetic force. Her critical interests cover: Feminist Theory and History, Gothic and Horror Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Women's Writing. There are some stylistic similarities to the works of Patricia A. McKillip.

Bibliography

;Novels * The Rihannar Chronicles, Book 1: Everran's Bane

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* The Rihannar Chronicles, Book 2: The Moving Water

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* The Rihannar Chronicles, Book 3: The Red Country

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;Blackston Gold: * The Solitaire Ghost une 2011* The Time Seam ovember 2011 ;Non-fiction: * Three Observations and a Dialogue Round and About SF queduct Press, May 2009

External links

Home Page of Sylvia Kelso
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