Ekaterina Sedia’s Heart of Iron is the latest from a novelist who embraces genre–in this case both steampunk and alternate history–but brings a full-on literary sensibility to them. This, her fifth novel, posits a Russia where the 1825 Decembrist revolution succeeded (read about that history here) and the new emperor sets about modernizing Russia with a vengeance. But people … Read More
Reviewing According to Crow at Guys Lit Wire
Over at Guys Lit Wire, a blog that reviews books for teenage boys, I discuss Ekaterina Sedia’s debut novel, According to Crow. If you’ve read her two later books, The Secret History of Moscow and The Alchemy of Stone, then you’ll want to check out her first one. If you have yet to discover the extraordinary Ms. Sedia, then let … Read More