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  Endicott Redux: Review: Delia Sherman's Changeling
Sherman does some fascinating things with myth and folklore: her Genius's, for example, are built on the premise of the genius loci, physical embodiments of their locales...
Delia Sherman's Changeling is one of those rare and wonderful novels that's intended for, and effective with, children, and yet remains a rich and satisfying read for adult audiences as the result of its carefully researched folklore and well-modulated humor.
The photograph of Delia Sherman is by Ellen Datlow.
endicottstudio.typepad.com /endicott_redux/2006/10/delia_shermans_.html   (5674 words)

  
 Chasing Ray - Interfictions ed by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss
Interfictions ed by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss
Described on the back cover as, “the literary mode of the new century, a reflection of the complex, ambiguous and challenging world we live in,” interstitial fiction is revealed through the collection as stories that dwell in areas both obviously and obtusely fantastic.
The concluding interview with editors Sherman and Goss provides further insight into how these specific stories were chosen and the overall plan the editors had for the book.
www.chasingray.com /reviews/2007/08/interfictions_ed_by_delia_sher.html   (1192 words)

  
 BookPage Fiction Review: Science Fiction
Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner's new book, The Fall of the Kings is one of the bawdiest and most intellectually stimulating novels of the year.
Since the northerners interbred with the city dwellers, their bloodline survives, and the land itself seems to be calling out for the rebirth of the wizards and the rise of a new king.
Kushner and Sherman's novel is a virtual treat for all the senses: The people of this city do not live on bread and cheese, they feast on pickled cherries and roasted goose livers, they drink hot chocolate to keep away the cold, and they frequent dockside bars where anything can happen—and usually does.
www.bookpage.com /0211bp/fiction/science_fiction.html   (680 words)

  
 SCIFI.COM Chat Transcript: Chat with Willima Shatner, July 24 2002
Delia: EK: the seventh circle is supposed to have reallygreat clams.....
Delia: ek: so all of one characgter's viewpoint scenes were originally written by Delia, and the other by me. jAnd each of us had veto power over the actions and portrayal of that character.
Delia: EK: ok, look, jed, I was like 23 years old when I started that story, and I was workiung at Ace Bookswriting cover copy for the complete reissue of teh Fritz Leiber "Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" series....
www.scifi.com /transcripts/2002/dshermanekushner1107.html   (2400 words)

  
 MEview - Through A Brazen Mirror
Sherman's grasp of setting, language, and behaviour act as a snare to pull readers ever deeper into the story of a widowed woman's search for peace and survival.
Sherman's deft touch unveils her characters' desires in a subtle, utterly human manner that shows far more restraint and affection than most heterosexual love stories.
No, Sherman hasn't presented us with yet another predictable sword-and-sorcery fantasy, but with a tale that takes a realistic look at medieval times.
www.hikeeba.com /meviews/review.php3?id=1885865244   (413 words)

  
 Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman—Brief Biographies
Delia's short fiction has appeared in Xanadu II, The Armless Maiden, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears, Sirens, A Wolf at the Door, The Greenman, and FandSF magazine, as well as several volumes of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
She co-edited two anthologies (The Horns of Elfland and The Essential Bordertown), has taught writing at Odyssey and Clarion, twice served as a judge for the Crawford Award, and spent several years on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr.
Delia and Ellen share a house in Boston, an apartment in Paris, and spend a fair amount of time in New York and on the road.
www.endicott-studio.com /bios/bioellendelia.html   (1021 words)

  
 The SF Site: An Interview With Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
Ellen Kushner was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Cleveland, Ohio.
Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in Manhattan.
Delia was living with me and was just starting out working as an editor and said she could use the experience.
www.sfsite.com /11b/dm69.htm   (3975 words)

  
 Bantam Dell Publishing Group: The Fall of The Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
As a “recovering academic” with a degree in Renaissance Studies, Delia was awfully curious to know what the city’s University was like (you may remember that the mysterious Alec, in Swordspoint, has left there in disgrace, vowing never to return).
I said, “OK, you write about that part.” So she chose the historian Basil St. Cloud to be her guide to the University, and along the way he picked up a loyal band of students who, to me, are themselves one of the most compelling “characters” in the book.
Delia said the place had to have a name, finally, because it was driving her crazy.
www.randomhouse.com /bantamdell/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780553381849&view=qa   (717 words)

  
 Delia Sherman on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
Also known as: Delia Sherman, Delia Sherman ed.
There are 9 conversations about Delia Sherman's books.
No members have added Delia Sherman as a favorite.
www.librarything.com /author/shermandelia   (336 words)

  
 Mythic Imagination Institute - Delia Sherman
Delia Sherman, Ph.D. is the President of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, a member of the Endicott Studio for the Mythic Arts, editor and award-winning author of numerous mythic short stories, and the novels Through a Brazen Mirror and The Porcelain Dove.
Delia is also the co-author with her partner Ellen Kushner of The Fall of the Kings.
Her first novel for younger readers, Changeling, was published in the fall of 2006 by Viking/Penguin, and she recently edited along with Theodora Goss an anthology of interstitial writings called Interfiction published by Small Beer Press that features stories by 18 diverse, genre-crossing authors.
www.mythicjourneys.org /guest_sherman.html   (101 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: Through A Brazen Mirror
If any of Delia Sherman's work should be remembered, it should be The Porcelain Dove, a novel of intoxicating beauty.
Sherman's grasp of setting, language, and behaviour act as a snare to pull readers ever deeper into the story of a widowed woman's search for peace and survival.
No, Sherman hasn't presented us with yet another predictable sword-and-sorcery fantasy, but with a tale that takes a realistic look at medieval times.
www.sfsite.com /09b/thru65.htm   (514 words)

  
 Delia Sherman -- www.deliasherman.com
Delia Sherman was born in Tokyo, Japan and brought up in New York, New York.
She has twice served as a judge for the Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel and is a member of the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr Award Council.
In 1995, Sherman exchanged the fading groves of academe for the mean streets of publishing, becoming a contributing editor for Tor Books, where she edits novels by some of today's finest fantasy writers.
www.sff.net /people/KushnerSherman/Kushner/delia.html   (620 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Through a Brazen Mirror: Books: Delia Sherman,Cortney Skinner,Ellen Kushner
Sherman's deft touch reveals her characters' desires in a subtle yet unapologetic manner.
Delia Sherman writes in a lovely style of prose, atmospheric and somewhat archaic, reminding me of the early books of Patricia McKillip, before her work became more abstract.
What Elinor lacks in humor or liveliness of spirit, Sherman suffuses her with discipline, focus, and total devotion to the tasks at hand.
www.amazon.ca /Through-Brazen-Mirror-Delia-Sherman/dp/1885865244   (1277 words)

  
 Rambles.NET: Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
Interfictions, the title of a new anthology edited by Delia Sherman and Theodora Goss, might also stand as a convenient label for the type of fiction presented.
Goss and Sherman call it "interstitial fiction" (a somewhat stilted sobriquet, in my opinion), the premise being that the stories exist outside the bounds of any particular genre.
The stories themselves are generally superb -- from the first, Christopher Barzak's subliminally scary "What We Know About the Lost Families of ----- House," to the last, Catherynne M. Valente's poetic but distanced "A Dirge for Prester John" -- to the extent that most of the works presented could be noted as stand-outs.
www.rambles.net /sherman_interficts07.html   (549 words)

  
 Interstitial Arts Foundation: Who: Delia Sherman
She spent much of her early life at one end of a classroom or another, first at Vassar College and Brown University, where she earned a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies, and then at Boston University and Northeastern, where she taught Expository Writing and Fantasy as Literature.
But she still misses the classroom now and again, and has been on the faculty of the Clarion East and Odyssey writing workshops, as well as participating in the Writers' Respite at Wiscon.
Sherman shares a 1910 urban farmhouse in Boston with Ellen Kushner and many pieces of paper.
www.interstitialarts.org /who/delia_sherman.html   (391 words)

  
 Fiction Facts
Ellen Kushner y Delia Sherman tejen el maravilloso tapiz de una sociedad sofisticada y brutal, donde las convenciones sociales esconden violentas pasiones, en una novela que indaga en el sustrato mítico de la fantasía al tiempo que enfrenta a sus magníficos personajes en diálogos tan afilados y espectaculares como la mejor esgrima.
Su tercera novela, La caída de los reyes (2002, con Delia Sherman) se desarrolla en el mismo mundo de A punta de espada, al igual que su obra más reciente, El privilegio de la espada (2006, premio Locus y finalista del Nebula).
Delia Sherman (1951, Tokio, Japón) se doctoró en estudios del Renacimiento en la Universidad de Brown y enseñó Literatura en la Universidad de Boston, para luego dedicarse a la edición en Tor Books.
ff.dreamers.com   (2751 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Changeling: Books: Delia Sherman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I hope Delia Sherman writes another of these; it would be real treat to see Neef in Jennifer's world.
It is New York Between, and Sherman balances the Between of Faerie with a terrific young heroine named Neef, ringing changes on every single New York and Faerie trope you can imagine, and a few you can't.
Sherman is setting this book up to be the first in a series, if it does well.
www.amazon.com /Changeling-Delia-Sherman/dp/0670059676   (2259 words)

  
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SAT Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman will read from their collaborative work-in-progress, The Fall of Kings, a rather long novel set in the same world as Ellen's novel Swordspoint.
Delia and Ellen attempt to found a new literary movement with a little help from their friends.
SUN Could potentially include a humorous discussion of some of the scientific stupidities in the literature (meaning sociological science in addition to physical/biological science), a discussion of whether bad science sells anyway or whether it is actually detrimental, a discussion of how some of the good writers avoid tripping over bad science and more.
www.sf3.org /wiscon/22/program.txt   (8563 words)

  
 Revisions to Sherman Directories
John Sherman’s four volumes include over 25,000 SHERMANS listed alphabetically by given name (oldest first), a large bibliography and a spouse index.
Delia A. Born in Cambridge, Lamoille Co., VT; married on 24 Apr 1872 in Cambridge.
That is Thomas Fenner Sherman, b: 1836 (not in JHS-91); son of James (30); married to Sarah Felch, and with son Francis M. Thomas F. Married Cynthia WAIT.
www.soysite.com /correctJHS.html   (6573 words)

  
 books about: delia (director-actor globalization customization)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I heard Delia speak at an event for businesswomen this year and was intrigued by her sales strategies, so when I found out about this book, I bought it and read it immediately (easy, quick read, ideal for a flight).
What I learned was there are significantly different ways to communicate with women that I have been overlooking all these years, that details are important, and that they need to...
BOOK REVIEW: A Hearth in Candlewood, by author Delia Parr I've just finished reading "A Heath in Candlewood," by author Delia Parr, I have to say, "Delia Parr has done it again!" In my ever so busy life, her latest novel "A Hearth in Candlewood" provided an essential escape for my rocket-paced workload.
www.very-clever.com /books/delia   (1358 words)

  
 The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Set between Kushner's previous novel, Swordspoint, and her collaboration with Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings, Privilege is an marvelous tale crackling with energy, wit, and wonders.
The characters are as vivid, complex and varied as the milieu in which they operate, and the contrast inherent in the reemergence of a deep-rooted, archetypal magic into an elaborately mannered society is piquant and compelling.
Sherman and Kushner are painters of great subtlety and sophistication, giving us a rich fantasy world where swordsmen and lady pirates seem every bit as believable as scholars.
www.lcrw.net /kushner/index.htm   (3937 words)

  
 Bibliomania -- Margaret's book log
Ellen Kushner, Swordspoint, The Privilege of the Sword, The Fall of the Kings (with Delia Sherman), also "The Swordsman Whose Name Is Not Death", "Red-Cloak", "The Death of the Duke", which are included in my Bantam reprint copy of Swordspoint: Swordspoint and The Fall of the Kings were rereads.
The Privilege of the Sword is, of course, new and is my favorite of the three books; for me, it had an emotional immediacy, perhaps created by the use of first person for the heroine, which is a little lacking in the other two (especially in the end of The Fall of the Kings).
Delia Sherman, Changeling: Having loved Sherman's story "CATNYP" in Datlow and Windling's The Faery Reel, I was very pleased to find out that she was writing a book about the heroine, Neef, a human changeling who lives with the fairy folk in New York Between.
www.lonelymountain.net /books   (2932 words)

  
 On Books: by Peter Heck
Kushner and Sherman set this elegant tale in the same world as, but several decades after, Kushner’s solo novel Swordspoint, in a society that has long since outgrown its mythic past, but can’t escape it.
The setting is a large university town, the capital of a nation that has a strong British feel, although its history differs in details.
It borders on cliché to say that the city itself is a major character in the story, but for once the statement is true–and it is equally true of the university, which the authors portray in knowing detail, from its grand buildings and atmospheric pubs to the dilapidated apartments where its scholars live.
www.asimovs.com /_issue_0310/onbooks.shtml   (2407 words)

  
 (BETSEY SHERMAN - DELIA SHERMAN )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BETSEY SHERMAN (1 Jul 1831 - 24 Jan 1907)
CATHERINE SHERMAN (26 Jun 1912 - 13 Sep 1964)
CLARA RUTH SHERMAN (11 Jan 1872 - 16 Jul 1911)
userdata.acd.net /korroch.william/sherman/index/ind0035.html   (200 words)

  
 Book Review: The Fall of the Kings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Fall of the Kings takes place in the same world as Swordspoint, but fifty or so years after the earlier novel (and the main characters from Swordspoint make a cameo appearance), but this is definitely a stand-alone novel and no knowledge of the previous novel is needed.
I know from conversations I've had with other Society members that this novel is not everyone's cup of tea, but for me, it's a definite winner and if it wins this year's MFA, I would not be upset.
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings.
www.mythsoc.org /fokrev.html   (507 words)

  
 Diary of Delia Salome Thayer Hemstreet
THE DIARY OF DELIA SALOME THAYER HEMSTREET (1862-192S) FROM FEBRUARY 4, 1893 TO MARCH 8, 1893 Identification of Principal Figures I -- Delia Salome Thayer Hemstreet Albert -- Albert Nelson Hemstreet, Delia's s husband Eugene (Gene -- Eugene Gardner Gardner Hemstreet, son of Delia and Albert.
Sherman -- Sherman Leland Hemstreet, son of Delia and Albert.
I wrote a letter to Delia, sent $1.00 in it today & traded 1.25, got some beef & lard & molases & e.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ok/county/logan/tidbits/dhemstreet.htm   (7637 words)

  
 Boing Boing: Changeling, a fairy tale of contemporary New York
The likable, mischievous Neef is disobedient, and ends up in the hottest of water, which she escapes through her cleverness and her exhaustive knowledge of folklore (Delia Sherman is herself an accomplished folklorist).
There's so much to love about this book -- Sherman's incorporation of the contemporary with the timeless is both seamless and endlessly amusing (Neef draws on her knowledge of such stories as "Little Red Baseball Cap" and "The Twelve Dancing Debutantes" and "Jack and the Extension Ladder").
From Sherman's magnificent handling of Asperger's Syndrome in fairy-land to the clever puzzles and challenges that Neef overcomes, this story is fast-paced, and weird in an intensely recognizable way.
www.boingboing.net /2006/09/14/changeling_a_fairy_t.html   (477 words)

  
 Through A Brazen Mirror, by Delia Sherman
This is a unique kind of book, the type that you find creeping into your thoughts and colouring your language -- in other words, the best kind.
Sherman's deft touch unveils her characters' desires in a subtle, utterly human manner that shows far more restraint and affection than most heterosexual love stories.
This is one of the rare times in your life you're being given a second chance at something valuable.
www.sfreader.com /read_review.asp?book=245   (530 words)

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