![]() ![]() Reading books like Jane Eyre or Persuasion (yes, I know, Austen isn't actually Victorian, shut it) require a bit of mental exercise because you have to keep remembering context - the social strictures that bind the women and their reactions to said help define them as characters. It's a literary mash-up with the potential for disaster, but rather than just coming up with a cute idea and shoving it into an old book ( "Oh hahaha what if Anna Karenina was a robot because 'android' starts with the same sound!"), she reimagined old literary tropes in a new context: what if the social tête-à-têtes that make up the "action sequences" in Austen or Brönte exist not because people were uptight back then, but due to immutable facts about dragon physiology? ![]() ![]() And so, in grand "you-got-your-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter" tradition, she wrote a book that combines them both, recasting a Victorian novel with anthropomorphic dragons. She's also clearly a geek for the written word in general, particularly 19th century Victorian-era social novels. She's a huge dork for science-fiction and fantasy, which you know if you read her wonderful retrospective reviews over at Tor.com. ![]()
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