[UA] Sean Stewart

[Bryant Durrell]

Sean Stewart's new novel is now out in hardcover (/Galveston/, check
it out) so this seems like as good a time as any to plug his work.
He writes intensely literate fantasy that one could call magic realism,
but I hate to label him that way.

The connection to UA is this: he's written a loosely linked group of
three novels which are set at the beginning, at the end, and at the
middle of a period during which magic has returned to our world.  They're
/Resurrection Man/, /The Night Watch/, and /Galveston/, respectively.
His sense of the archetype is not entirely unlike Unknown Armies, although
what he does with them is quite different.  But it's a human-driven
world of magic.

A quote, for flavor, from /The Night Watch/:

"There were three great Powers in Chinatown: Double Monkey, that
sneakiest of gods, the Lady in the Garden, and the Dragon. The Dragon
was a ferocious Power and the Hong Hsing Athletic Club was the heart
of his turf. Jen could feel the eyes of all of the Dragon's bully boys
on him. They were lounging against the gym walls, well back from the
Southsiders, watching him get the shit pounded out of him by a skinny
white lady."

He also writes more traditional fantasy, and some SF, and just lots
of really brilliant stuff.  http://www.redshift.com/~sstewart/ for
chapter excerpts and auctorial notes and so on.

-- 
  Bryant Durrell [] durrell at innocence.com [] http://www.innocence.com/~durrell
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   HARBOR, n.  A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to
                  the fury of the customs.  -- Ambrose Bierce

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