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Wen Spencer

Autor(a) de Tinker

30+ Works 5,687 Membros 237 Críticas 50 Favorited

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Image credit: Wen Spencer, accepting the Campbell Award at Torcon 3, the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). Photo taken at the Hugo Award ceremony. Photo by David Brukman Date 30 August 2003

Séries

Obras por Wen Spencer

Tinker (2003) 1,091 exemplares
A Brother's Price (2005) 704 exemplares
Alien Taste (2001) 612 exemplares
Wolf Who Rules (2006) 599 exemplares
Tainted Trail (2002) 434 exemplares
Bitter Waters (2003) 407 exemplares
Dog Warrior (2004) 386 exemplares
Endless Blue (2007) 358 exemplares
Elfhome (2012) 271 exemplares
Eight Million Gods (2013) 171 exemplares
Wood Sprites (2014) 152 exemplares
The Black Wolves of Boston (2017) 132 exemplares
Project Elfhome (2016) 101 exemplares
Steel City Magic (2006) 82 exemplares
Harbinger (2022) 47 exemplares
Wyvern (2012) 46 exemplares
Blue Sky (2006) 43 exemplares
Bare Snow Falling on Fairywood (2014) 10 exemplares
Peace Offering (2012) 7 exemplares
Protection Money [short story] (2006) 4 exemplares
Being Human 1 exemplar
Storm Furies (2024) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Turn the Other Chick (2004) — Contribuidor — 302 exemplares
Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern (2013) — Contribuidor — 130 exemplares
Faerie Tales (2004) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
Transhuman (2008) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Chicks and Balances (2015) — Contribuidor — 71 exemplares
Cosmic Tales: Adventures in Sol System (2004) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares
Fantastic Companions (2005) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
The Baen Big Book of Monsters (2014) — Contribuidor — 34 exemplares
A Cosmic Christmas 2 You (2013) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Free Short Stories 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Free Short Stories 2013 (2013) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Free Short Stories 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares

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I enjoyed this. Some of it is a bit over the top. The book is a bit overcrowded, I think. Too many relations and backstories. For me, a bit too many chaotic action scenes. I loved the cozy bits. I wanted more of that.
 
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zjakkelien | 13 outras críticas | Jan 2, 2024 |
A very poor showing in an otherwise fantastic series, this is less a novel, and more a collection of drabbles, short-stories and novellas.
Lacking any discernable plot and without a coherent storyline, it would have been much better of as another Project Elfhome book, filling in the cracks and humanizing the city.
Based on this, I am not sure the author even knows how to progress or end the series, so instead she is fiddling her thumbs, trying to shoehorn every character and story arch into the main plotline.
I adore most of the characters, and welcome a chance to learn more of them, but this haphazard drive-by inclusion does not serve them or the story.
… (mais)
½
 
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amberwitch | 5 outras críticas | Oct 24, 2023 |
A Brother’s Price
by Wen Spencer
316 pages
In this book the roles between male and female are reversed. Women rule the world and men are chattel, without rights, used as breeders, care giver for the children he sires, and homemaker. The cover shows the moment that changes the course of a family's life. A very young girl defends a strange woman in uniform, the girl runs back to the farmhouse to let her younger sisters know what has occurred. Her big brother helps bring the unconscious back to the house, they don't know that she is a princess.… (mais)
 
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Pebblesgmc | 36 outras críticas | Jun 27, 2023 |
In a world where women dramatically outnumber men, Jerin Whistler spends his time cooking meals, tending his younger siblings, and hoping that his sisters will marry him off to a suitable family. But things begin to change after the Whistlers stumble upon a treasonous conspiracy and Jerin falls in love with five princesses.

A Brother's Price juggles plenty of genres -- science fiction, Regency romance, Westerns -- but cheerfully sticks to the lowest cliches. The shotguns and gunboats are flashy but inconsistent; the romance is entirely predictable; the SF themes are completely pasted on. The reversed gender roles have dramatic effect but no logic. In the end, your enjoyment of A Brother's Price will hinge on how amused you are to read the hero described as looking "adorable in his plum silk tunic and flowing trousers."… (mais)
 
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proustbot | 36 outras críticas | Jun 19, 2023 |

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Obras
30
Also by
12
Membros
5,687
Popularidade
#4,343
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
237
ISBN
52
Línguas
1
Marcado como favorito
50

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