robin hobb
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Science Fiction Fridays: NW SF & Fantasy Authors Part 2: Influential Writers
The Northwest boasts a stunning array of influential writers–those names that are invoked again and again as inspirations in new writers’ work, those that blazed trails that others have look at in awe and tried to follow. Here are just a few of the authors the Northwest can claim as stellar examples in the firmament.… Continue reading
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Science Fiction Fridays: The World’s Saddest Assassin
I love fantasy with detailed world-building, complex characters and political intrigue, so I was pleased to come across Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice the first book in the Farseer trilogy. Assassin’s Apprentice starts when a six year old child, only known even to himself as “boy,” is dropped at the royal court by his grandfather. The boy, later… Continue reading