Before she can return, everything Tellurith has worked for threatens to crumble, as war flares along the River, among the fall and liberation of states, including Amberlight. Nor are things quieter downRiver, or n Iskarda itself. The qherrique itself chooses Tellurith a company, of husbands, lovers, old friends and new, and their passage upRiver is accompanied by upheavals and catastrophe wherever they pass. When Tellurith and her consort receive the precious yet harrowing gift of a possible new form of the qherrique, only one solution offers protection for Iskarda and the qherrique both: leave Iskarda. The entire Amberlight series blurs the lines between Science Fiction and Fantasy so much that the series has been classified as both.Īfter their shattering departure from Amberlight, Telluir House has begun to rebuild in the mountain village of Iskarda – but even there, River politics remain a threat. In it Kelso explores feminism and river politics as the main character, Tellurith searches for the source of the river around which her society is built. Her most recent book, Source, is the third book in the Riverworld/Amberlight series. This is partially because she’s from a cattle station (ranch) in North Queensland. Sylvia Kelso sets most of her works in either an analogous version of Australia, or using Australia as an outright setting for her books. When not writing or reading she likes to play Celtic music on a whistle, with or without friends.Originally published at Tracy S. ![]() She lives in a house with a lot of trees in the garden but no cats, dogs or children. She continues to teach at James Cook, where she is now an adjunct lecturer, while giving conference papers and publishing articles from research focused on women’s writing in SF, Fantasy, and horror fiction. She now has a PhD on feminism’s interaction with SF and the Gothic, and a Creative Writing MA based on an SF novel set in alternate North Queenslands. After getting a BA with first class honours in English she left University till the mid ‘80s, when she began teaching part-time at James Cook University in Townsville. Short fiction includes “Slick,” 2004, “The Cretaceous Border,” 2008, “The Sharp Shooter”, 2009, and under contract is a further short story, “An Offer You Couldn’t Refuse.” Sylvia has published poetry in Australian literary magazines and a national anthology of women’s poetry. ![]() The two parts of The Solitaire Ghost, a mystery/suspense romance, combining research with family stories and local history, are scheduled for release in 2011. The sequel to Amberlight, Riversend, came out in 2009, and the third Amberlight book, Source, will be released is September 2010. The Red Country, the sequel to The Moving Water, appeared in 2008. Her first fantasy novel, Everran’s Bane, appeared in 2005 its sequel, The Moving Water, was a finalist for best fantasy novel in the 2007 Aurealis Australian genre fiction awards. She began writing fantasy after returning to Australia in 1980, with a fresh eye for local landscapes. ![]() Born in Townsville, North Queensland, she has lived here since 1983, but has also travelled extensively, including three years in Europe researching a historical novel on the Second Punic War. Sylvia Kelso was telling stories before she could write them down.
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