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Joanne Anderton

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Joanne Anderton is an Australian writer. Her science fiction/fantasy novels include Debris, Suited, and Guardian. Her short stories collection is entitled The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories. It won the Aurealis Award for best collection, and the Australian Shadows Award for best collected work. vis mere Her horror short story, Bullets, won the 2015 Aurealis Awards Best Horror Short Story. She is the author of the children's book, The Flying Optometrist, published in April 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

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Værker af Joanne Anderton

Debris (2010) 197 eksemplarer
Suited (2012) 69 eksemplarer
Guardian (2014) 12 eksemplarer
Trail of Dead 1 eksemplar
The Art of Broken Things (2022) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Zombies: More Recent Dead (2014) — Bidragyder — 55 eksemplarer
Mother of Invention (2018) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
Hope (2011) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries (2013) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Worlds next door (2010) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
Bloodlines (2015) — Bidragyder — 12 eksemplarer
Dead Red Heart (2011) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 (2017) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 (2014) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (2013) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Masques (2009) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Insert Title Here (2015) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Bloodstones (2012) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
In Your Face (2016) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
Unnatural Order (2021) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Damnation Games (2022) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer

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And again a highly engrossing book. I very much like this world. It may be classified as SF, but it feels very fantasy-like to me. Every now and then I had some annoyances (the keeper being a bit whiny, as understandable as that may be. A few scenes that felt repetitive of what happened in book 1). Overall though, enough was happening and enough veils were lifted that I raced through this book. The characters are mostly not all-in-all lovable (the only exception being Lad), sometimes you want to kick some of them, but they feel real in all their stubbornness. And they are sympathetic. Events at the end make me really curious to see how this will continue, so I'm going to check out book 3 now...… (mere)
 
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zjakkelien | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jan 2, 2024 |
I was a little worried that this book might be too shallow, but I actually rather enjoyed it! The only thing I really didn't like was the creepy lover, who seemed bad news to me at once, and towards whom the protagonist seems to feel mostly guilt. Sounds like a good reason to break it of to me... The whole relationship seemed unreal to me in any case. The protagonist didn't seem to be the kind of woman who would get into a relationship that quickly.
But other than that, I was impressed by the main character. Her whole world gets turned around, but she manages fairly well and doesn't give in to despair. That doesn't mean that her decisions are always the greatest: clearly she should have given up on her apartment long before she actually did. But hey, she has been through a lot, she is allowed some leeway when it comes to making rational decisions. So sure, she needs some assistance a few times, but she also develops a new skill, questions the workings of the world and makes new friends. Big pluses for me: she is in her thirties, she is highly educated, and whenever she needs help, it's because she goes from the high end of society to the low, not because she is a woman (and no-one ever implies that that might be the reason). I believe there is one mention somewhere of some profession being more likely held by men than by women, but that's it. I hope Mrs. Anderton keeps this up in the sequel!… (mere)
 
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zjakkelien | 7 andre anmeldelser | Jan 2, 2024 |
You can read my review of this book at the New York Journal of Books here: http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/debris
 
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CarmaSpence | 7 andre anmeldelser | Jul 26, 2018 |
Guardian by Jo Anderton is the third book in the Veiled Worlds Trilogy. I have to admit, when I read book two, Suited, I didn't realise there was going to be a sequel (although in retrospect, I probably should have). And then the publisher of the first two books didn't pick up the third, so it was a longer wait than usual for this concluding volume. Luckily FableCroft did pick up Guardian, so we can all enjoy the ending to the story started in Debris. I have to warn you, though: if you haven't read the first two books everything about Guardian, including the blurb, is made of spoilers.

Guardian was an unusual book, more so, I think, than the first two which at least shared a common setting. I'd seen a lot of people compare the Veiled Worlds series to anime aesthetics but I didn't really see the resemblance until Guardian. A large part of the story takes place in a different world with little in common with the world of Movoc-under-Keeper. In some ways that world is more similar to our own — mostly in the way that people don't control pions with their minds to build stuff — but it's a pretty extreme post-apocalyptic type of a world.

While Tanyana is there, we learn a lot about how the two worlds are connected, what the Keeper, the Other and the Veil are (although the latter takes a bit longer to become clear) and the connection between worlds. At the end of Suited there was a cataclysmic disruption that did not leave all the characters we've come to know intact. The ramifications of that are explored further here and, most notably, we find out what was going on with "Halves" having a special connection to the Keeper.

I have to say, I had somewhat mixed feelings about one character who was badly injured and then sort of magically fixed. On the one hand, she agreed to what happened (the being fixed part, not the badly injured part), but on the other, I couldn't help but feel the fix took away a lot of her agency and, crucially, affected her personhood and identity. I would have liked to have seen the consequences of that expired more fully rather than just touched upon in a sort of epilogue.

What makes Guardian hard to review is that it's so different from the first two books in setting. I would like to, at some point, reread all three books in succession to get the full impact of the flow of the story. And in case it isn't already obvious, Guardian is not the point at which to pick up the series. It's definitely the kind of trilogy where you should try to read the first two books first.

I quite enjoyed Guardian and indeed the entire Veiled Worlds trilogy. I highly recommend it to fans of technological fantasy or just fantasy which differs from the mainstream. The worldbuilding is very original and one of the real strengths of the series. The magic is very structured; leading some to call the series science fiction. In that light, fans of slipstream and genre-bending fiction should find much to like here.

4 / 5 stars

You can read more of my reviews on my blog.
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Tsana | Sep 6, 2014 |

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