Nov
11
2:00am
Nghi Vo discusing INTO THE RIVERLANDS with Shelley Parker-Chan
By Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
NGHI VO is the author of the novels SIREN QUEEN and THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL, as well as the acclaimed novellas WHEN THE TIGER CAME DOWN THE MOUNTAIN and THE EMPRESS OF SALT AND FORTUNE, a Locus and Ignyte Award finalist and the winner of the Crawford Award and the Hugo Award. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.
SHELLEY PARKER-CHAN is an Australian by way of Malaysia and New Zealand. A 2017 Tiptree Fellow, she is the author of the historical fantasy novel SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN. Parker-Chan spent nearly a decade working as a diplomat and international development adviser in Southeast Asia, where she became addicted to epic East Asian historical TV dramas. After a failed search to find English-language book versions of these stories, she decided to write her own. Parker-Chan currently lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she is very grateful to never have to travel by leaky boat ever again. She won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2022.
Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region. On the road to Betony Docks, they fall in with a pair of young women far from home, and an older couple who are more than they seem. As Chih runs headlong into an ancient feud, they find themself far more entangled in the history of the riverlands than they ever expected to be.
Accompanied by Almost Brilliant, a talking bird with an indelible memory, Chih confronts old legends and new dangers alike as they learn that every story—beautiful, ugly, kind, or cruel—bears more than one face.
The Singing Hills Cycle:
The Empress of Salt and Fortune
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Into the Riverlands
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