Strange Horizons - The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg By Sessily Watt
Strange Horizons The Four Profound Weaves, by R. B. Lemberg, is beautiful and painful, often both at once. Lemberg writes with clarity about the harms done in the name of power and in the name of love. They write, too, about hope; an active hope that cannot erase the harms done for power or love, but that can find a life beyond that harm. The novel tells the story of Uiziya e Lali and nen-sasaïr, who embark on a quest after decades spent waiting for change. Uiziya has waited forty years for Aunt Benesret to return to the snake-Surun’ camp and finish teaching her the Four Profound Weaves of...