In short: the book has problematic elements, but ultimately it works. Technically wolf “names” are distinct smells, which is also pretty cool. But thank god the “telepathy” here is more one of collective images and feelings-no wolves awkwardly speaking words here.
I understand that this novel was in part a response to the human-animal bonding elements in the Pern series (with dragons) by Anne McCaffrey, which I have not read and cannot comment on. All that aside, though, the book is really an excuse to showcase gay sex deep world building and the sexual escapades of wolf packs and their telepathically bonded humans, with everything that entails. Our hero, Njall (later Isolfr), bonds with a female wolf (Viradechtis), who will later be a pack leader, and must deal with the ramifications of that while his society is on the brink of a brutal war. To deal with them, wolves and humans telepathically bond together in halls and go hunting for the trolls and wyverns in dangerous hunting parties. In a kind of Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic world called Iskryne, trolls and wyverns are a constant plague on humans. Any copyrights so stated in the materials remain in force.Book Rec: A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bearīecause apparently I hadn’t had enough of wolf-like packs with Omegaverse fics, I breezed through this book in three days, which is really fast for me (I’ve been known to take about a year to finish a single book *facepalm*).
Literary Rights are retained by the content creator. Property Rights are transferred to the University Libraries per the signed Deed of Gift Document. Photographs and photocopies of collection are prohibited. 2014 addendum: Goblin Emperor: book and cover flat. Acquired 2013: Odysse圜on 2010 t-shirt, Fourth Street Fantasy and ChiCon 7convention programs and material, cds of manuscripts, correspondence, partial manuscripts of Thirdhop Scarp, Learning to See Dragons, and The Goblin Emperor with notes, a Mad Norwegian contract, SFWA member voting material, Night Land envelope, and books. Gifts from 2011-2012: 1 copy of Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012 1 folder of rejection letters 1 printout of Goblin Emperor manuscript (written as Katharine Addison) dated 4/2012, with notes by Sarah and Allen Monette Acquired October 2012: Manuscript printout 8/21/12 for joint story "The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward" by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear copy of Ghosts: Recent Hauntings anthology and The Book of Cthulu 2 anthology.
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