About fifteen years ago, when I worked in SF-Bokhandeln, I would read Locus Magazine on my lunch break and dream about having a book reviewed in there. Locus was my first encounter with the English-speaking publishing industry, and it all seemed magical and far away. Writing a book? Heh. In English? Surely, you jest!
How I would love to travel back in time and present this review by Gary K. Wolfe to my twenty-year-old self:
Wolfe has some very kind things to say:
[...]?Beatrice?, which is Tidbeck?s surreal take on a steampunk romance, as a physician?who has fallen in unrequited love with an airship meets a printer?s assistant who has fallen in?love with a steam engine. Tidbeck has the discipline to follow such absurdist premises with a?kind of fierce plot logic that almost makes them seem inevitable.
and
[...]even in the briefest and most elliptical of her tales, the motivations that drive her?figures through these strange landscapes seem credible.
and in the context of ?Reindeer Mountain?:
It?s a gorgeously shaped?tale that may not be Tidbeck?s most bizarre, but which demonstrates as well as any how her?various oddities are grounded in an absolutely authentic sense of place, and a keen understanding?of how the heart works, even when it isn?t assisted by shift workers inside the body.
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I can?t find the review online in its entirety, probably because it just came out in paper form. I?m sure it?ll pop up. Meanwhile, I?ll sit and rustle these pages in sheer delight.
Source: http://karintidbeck.com/2012/10/12/jagannath-gets-some-love-from-locus-magazine/
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