Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, Lisa Goldstein
Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon, Lisa Goldstein
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Strange Devices of the Sun and Moon

Author: Lisa Goldstein

Narrator: Mary Sarah

Unabridged: 10 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/08/2019

Synopsis

London in the time of Queen Elizabeth I is a bustling place, its streets crowded with vendors selling goods from all over the world. In the courtyard of St. Paul's Cathedral, Alice Wood competes with other booksellers, hawking pamphlets, plays, and the latest poetry from the continent. It is a lonely life for a hardworking young widow, and she will soon put it aside. When a black-clad stranger visits, speaking in riddles and asking questions about her long-vanished son, Alice will be drawn into an adventure straight out of one of her faerie stories.

The Elizabethan court has been infiltrated by the Fair Folk, a race of magical beings whose intentions are shadowy and dangerous. With the help of Christopher Marlowe, the city's most dashing playwright, Alice must untangle the faerie conspiracy to save her son—and the crown.

About Lisa Goldstein

Lisa Goldstein is the National Book Award-winning author of The Red Magician and The Uncertain Places. She has published eleven novels and two short fiction collections, including Dark Cities Underground, The Alchemist's Door, and Travellers in Magic. Her short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Interzone and Asimov's Science Fiction, and in anthologies including The Norton Book of Science Fiction and the Year's Best Fantasy series. Goldstein is also a founding member of the women's speculative fiction co-operative the Brazen Hussies. She lives in Oakland, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lissa on December 01, 2017

This was a wonderful read and transported me back into a Tudor England where fey forces vye with Christopher Marlowe and other playwrights. I was reminded of Deborah Harkness' second vampire book, Conspiracy of Witches, although Goldstein is far more lyrical in expression. Here we have court intrigu......more

Goodreads review by Tyrannosaurus on September 17, 2019

I first read this book in, I think, 1995, and it was part of a deliberate attempt to broaden my horizons beyond the sword and sorcery of my early teenage years. I had long since developed an affection for Kit Marlowe (which persists to this day) and for faerie stories, so this book was a bit of a pe......more

Goodreads review by Marge on June 12, 2022

I actually stopped reading this--I couldn't get into it.......more

Goodreads review by Mona on May 26, 2011

OK maybe my rating of 5 stars is a little generous. It just so happened that this book came to me at the right time - I was ready for a non-fiction romp that whisked me away to another world and was a quick and easy read. This book had so many of my favorite things - fairies, an Elizabethan setting,......more

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