![]() ![]() One day a stranger brings a dying civilian into Miles’s hospital who claims he’s been poisoned before he dies, the man begs Miles to find the party responsible.īut Miles has his own secrets to manage. Miles Singer, a military surgeon living in Aeland’s capital, tends wounded soldiers while investigating the terrible affliction that makes them dissociate and murder their families once released into their care. The nations of Aeland and Laneer have recently concluded a war in Aeland’s favor, and Dr. Polk’s WITCHMARK (Tor.com, paper, $15.99) is set a few degrees slant of an early-20th-century Europe where witchcraft is real but practiced only by a secretive upper class of weather-controlling mages. Now that autumn is upon us, I want to look at four wonderfully immersive otherworlds that circle around ideas of magically controlled environments and the free wills that resist them.Ĭ. Moving from one season into another isn’t unlike traveling to different countries: As landscapes and weather patterns shift, so do our habits and thought processes. ![]()
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