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Jane M. Lindskold is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. Smaug in his lair: an illustration for the fantasy The Hobbit Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is in need of attention. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ...


Lindskold grew up in Washington, D.C. and Chesapeake Bay. She studied at Fordham, where she received a Ph. D. in English, concentrating on Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern British Literature. Mentored by her friend, Roger Zelazny, she started publishing stories in 1992, and she published her first novel, Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls in December, 1994. In her Athanor series, she writes about the creatures of legend — shape-shifters, satyrs, merfolk, and unicorns — who have sworn to keep their existence hidden from a human race prone to kill what it does not understand. In her Firekeeper Saga, she writes about a woman who discovers that politics among the wolves she was raised by and politics among human royalty are not so different. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband, anthropologist Jim Moore. Nickname: Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia Coordinates: , Country United States Federal District District of Columbia Government  - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D)  - D.C. Council Chairperson: Vincent C. Gray (D) Ward 1: Jim Graham (D) Ward 2... The Chesapeake Bay - Landsat photo The Chesapeake Bay where the Susquehanna River empties into it. ... Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels. ... Satyrs (Satyri) in Greek mythology are half-man half-beast nature spirits that haunted the woods and mountains, companions of Pan and Dionysus. ... This article is about the mythical creature. ... This article is about the largest city of New Mexico. ... Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Area  Ranked 5th  - Total 121,665 sq mi (315,194 km²)  - Width 342 miles (550 km)  - Length 370 miles (595 km)  - % water 0. ...

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The Firekeeper Saga

There are plans to turn this series into comics by Dabel Brothers Productions [1]

Through Wolfs Eyes is the first book in the Firekeeper Saga by Jane Lindskold. ... Wolfs Head, Wolfs Heart is the second book in the Firekeeper Saga by Jane Lindskold. ...

The Athanor series

  • Changer (1998)
  • Legends Walking (1999)

Other novels

  • Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls (1994)
  • Marks of Our Brothers (1995)
  • The Pipes of Orpheus (1995)
  • Smoke and Mirrors (1996)
  • When the Gods are Silent (1997)
  • Donnerjack (1997) with Roger Zelazny
  • Lord Demon (1999) with Roger Zelazny
  • The Buried Pyramid (2004)
  • Child of a Rainless Year (2005)

Donnerjack, a science fiction novel by Roger Zelazny and Jane Lindskold, 1997. ... Lord Demon is vintage Zelazny: a scientific fantasy built on favorite themes (the necessity of knowing oneself, of taking risks, and of accepting the vulnerability that comes with feeling passionately), drawing on East Asian, Irish, and heros quest myths, and featuring his signature protagonist: erudite, smart-mouthed, detached, homicidal...

Stories

Worlds of Honor, published in 1999, was the second anthology of stories set in the Honorverse. ... The Service of the Sword, published in 2003, was the fourth anthology of stories set in the fictional Honorverse. ...

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The SF Site Featured Review: Donnerjack (583 words)
Lindskold went back to Zelazny's previous novels, studied his style, his sentence structure, his word usage patterns.
I doubt that anyone was expecting perfection, but I think Lindskold succeeded admirably in what must have been a difficult challenge.
Jane Lindskold lived with him during the final year of his life.
Jane Lindskold -- Available Books (548 words)
Wild, strange, and unpredictable, he is known as the Changer: the ultimate vagabond who slips in and out of myths and cultures, refusing to be pinned down to any one origin just as he refuses to be locked into any one shape--or name.
Completed posthumously by his longtime friend and collaborator Jane Lindskold, DONNERJACK is one of two novels Roger Zelazny started before his death.
Jane Lindskold, his partner and a fantasy author herself, completed it from some manuscript, a few notes, and conversations she'd had with him.
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