![]() ![]() And the safe space? It isn’t, leaving Riley facing a newcomer much too powerful to oppose alone.Īnother contemporary fantasy, C.B. But the protagonist, Riley, isn’t the vampire slayer–she’s the most powerful being in Toronto. It initially resembles a typical urban fantasy milieu: magic’s real the setting’s a modern metropolis there’s a vampire slayer there’s a nightclub/bar/safe space for the supernatural set. In opening story “Counterbalance,” Ruth Sorrell’s impressive first fiction publication, the world isn’t too different from ours. ![]() You’ll find all these possibilities, and more, in the twelve worlds of Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic, the new anthology edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff. Worlds where mortals have powers and abilities we can only dream of where women neither need nor expect to rely on a man where genders and orientations are equal, or face inequities starker than our own. Lethe Press (Trade Paperback, 238 pp., $15.00, May 2011)įantasy allows us to see the world not as it is, but as it might be. Hellebore & Rue: Tales of Queer Women and MagicĮdited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoffĭrollerie Press (Ebook, 238 pp., $9.99, February 2011) ![]()
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