I’ve recently crossed some excellent heroines in fiction who aren’t younger than their mid-20s such as Lois McMaster Bujold’s Dowager Queen, Ista, from her Chalion series and M.C.A. ( Check out our past Tough Traveling that explores this theme with many women listed.) Specifically she asked: “Where are the middle-aged heroines?” This along with an art exhibit he visited where one of the pieces featured an executioner inspired him to look into a genre he doesn’t normally write in (fantasy) and craft a story that tries to give us a heroine who fits this bill. Buckell stating that while he’d been editing one of his stories he listened to a discussion by Maureen McHugh about women’s roles in genre fiction, mentioning all the young, nubile heroines we get when strength comes from women of all ages. These stories explore both sides of the tale and both share a common theme of the things we’d do for the ones we love. However, for some, the threat of death is worth the use of magic. Magic continues to be used, and the punishment for using magic is death. Despite this threat, brambles continue to appear.
These brambles continue to grow and sprout as magic is used, strangling and destroying whole nations. Every time someone casts a spell, poisonous, thorny bramble vines appear in random places. This started as an audiobook, but now you can buy both stories in digital print format separately. The Alchemist and the Executioness is actually two novellas told in a shared universe. Narrators: Jonathan Davis ( The Alchemist), Katherine Kellgren ( The Executioness) Publisher: Audible Studios (July 7, 2010)
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