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Delia Marshall Turner

News & Reviews:  

NAMELESS MAGERY chosen by Locus Magazine
for "Recommended Reading" for 1998:  
"A wild and diverting mix of SF and fantasy . . .
carried off with uncommon panache"

writes reviewer Carolyn Cushman.

NAMELESS MAGERY nominated for a
Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award for best first novel of 1998.

OF SWORDS AND SPELLS reviewed in Barnes and Noble's
Explorations newsletter for December/January 1999:
"Delia has given us yet another gem . . . You have to read this book . . .it is remarkable,
just like NAMELESS MAGERY,  just like the author.  Remember this woman's name."


Here are some excerpts.  Read and see!


Cover of Nameless Magery Nameless Magery, Del Rey, July 1998, ISBN 0-345-42430-1

From the first chapter, "In Which I Don't Eat A Rat"
It was winter.  I was half-starved and so wet my armpits were starting to mildew.  My father's finger bone hanging on a thin metal chain was the only thing left of my life--all seventeen years of it, but that was forever to me then--and it seemed my future was going to end shortly in a dismal pile of my own bones. . . [read some more of the first chapter]

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Cover, Of Swords And Spells Of Swords And Spells, Del Rey, December 1998, ISBN 345-42432-8

From the first chapter, "The Salute (Malka, Indicating Intent)"
The big dark room echoed with the silvery sound of moving feet and blunted weapons striking against each other. Light came in the high windows and got lost in the moving shadows below. All around the circle containing my teacher and me, the students moved back and forth in pairs, dancing with no music, trying to hurt each other. In the center, we stood still, facing one another, teacher and student, surly gorilla man looming over cantankerous monkey girl.
[read on]

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My short story:  "The Afterlife," was published in the Fall 1996 issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction, and is a trifle different.  To get a taste, click here.

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This page last updated July 26, 2000