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 A few months ago, I ran across a reference by Jo Walton in one of her Tor reading lists to a work by Victoria Goddard, whom I had never encountered before. A quick check around the net revealed a large number of very positive reviews of Goddard's work, so I decided to check her work out.

(Note that as Goddard is self-published, her work is quite reasonable in price if bought as e-books but fairly pricey if bought as hardcopy. E-books are available directly from her website or via various other sites (though not from Google Books).)

Goddard is good, and worth recommending, although she is not quite as good as many of her more enthusiastic reviewers would make her out to be. The discussion below is (of necessity) rather full of spoilers.

Spoilers below... )
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 ,,, that it is an interesting experience to start reading Charlie Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming while finishing up Gareth Stedman-Jones' Outcast London.(a study of the plight of the casual labourers/poor in the mid-to-late 19th Century).

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