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R. B. Lemberg


A Portrait of the Desert in Personages of Power

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This novella originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #229 and #230, July 2016.

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Geometries of Belonging

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This novelette originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #183, October 2015.

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Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This Nebula Award-nominated novelette was originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #175 in June 2015. It can also be found in the anthology Heiresses of Russ 2016: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (2016), edited by A. M. Dellamonica and Steve Berman.

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Held Close in Syllables of Light

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This novelette originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #80, October 2011.

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The Book of How to Live

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This novelette originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, #209, September 2016.

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The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

This short story originally appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 8, January-February 2016.

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The Four Profound Weaves

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

Wind: To match one's body with one's heart
Sand: To take the bearer where they wish
Song: In praise of the goddess Bird
Bone: To move unheard in the night

The Surun' nomads do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But aged Uiziya must find her aunt in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay.

Among the Khana in the springflower city of Iyar, women travel in caravans to trade, while men remain in the inner quarter, as scholars. A nameless man struggles to embody Khana masculinity, after many years of performing the life of a woman, trader, wife, and grandmother. As his past catches up, the man must choose between the life he dreamed of and Uiziya - while Uiziya must discover how to challenge the evil Ruler of Iyar, and to weave from deaths that matter.

The Unbalancing: A Birdverse Novel

Birdverse

R. B. Lemberg

New love blossoms between an impatient starkeeper and a reclusive poet as they try together to save their island home.

Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, a star sleeps restlessly. The celebrated new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri, who is preoccupied by the increasing tremors, confronts the problems left behind by her predecessor.

Meanwhile, the poet Erígra Lilún, who merely wants to be left alone, is repeatedly asked by their ancestor Semberí to take over the starkeeping helm. Semberí insists upon telling Lilún mysterious tales of the deliverance of the stars by the goddess Bird.

When Ranra and Lilún meet, sparks begin to fly. An unforeseen configuration of their magical deepnames illuminates the trouble under the tides. For Ranra and Lilún, their story is just beginning; for the people of Gelle-Geu, it may well be too late to save their home.

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