Gormglaith
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"So I frobbed the new hopper first thing," said Giorsal, taking a sip of bluish milk. "A pink bamfed in for a peek and feeped at me! It was the wabbit," she sighed. "I don't get it. Sometimes I think Maiden lane's not the hex I grew up with."
"Like a kludge," said Flann, "munchin' mung 'n toast."
"It's so leeg," said Enid, heedfully wrapping strands of blue cheese string noodyls onto her fork. "The only grass wabbits anyone shares anymore are dodgy bloat. I hack 'em to bits but they're still geef."
"Spell rags..." Aine put with raised forefinger, thick braids sweeping across the wide pink brims on her figgish chest.
"...and hex hags!" Geileis said brightly as the others laughed.
Aine giggled, shoving a stringy forkful into her mouth as Enid wagged a sandy blond head.
"So there's that stoneware dish over a hearth at Findabair's," said Gormglaith, munching on blueberries, "...the one with all the swatches in shades of green the
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Gormglaith is hard science fiction set in a scientifically plausible future with a witchy, Gaelic/Celtic bent. In August 2007 Skepchick.org published an interview about Gormglaith with writer Heidi Wyss: http://skepchick.org/blog/?p=636
This is exactly the sort of thing I hate in literature. When books get politicized they inevitably become so incredibly over-written as to be utterly and completely unreadable. No doubt this is so those who support the position they advocate can feel smart, and mock the rest of us for being neanderthalic male brutes.
I will say that the writing style itself is interesting. About the best I can do, I'm afraid.
Lesbian scifi, hard to understand at first but worth the effort.
Utterly unreadable.
incomprehensible. Is this book actually in English??
This may be genius, it may be madness... There are Druids and Wiccans who'll devour it whole... LOTR fans who'll sleep out for tickets to the movie and Witchy young women enamored of fantasy books on all things Keltic... and I'll be telling all of the ones I know to read this book.
- Morgaine Swann, womenwriters.net
Gormglaith is a radical and poetic piece of work that operates on several levels... As feminist literature it's unceasingly assertive, positive and controversial. As hard science fiction it offers a deeply structured, often entertaining story, at turns inspiring and disturbing, in a unique contribution to the genre.
- Karen Campbell, Quiet Mountain Essays
