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The Inheritance: And Other Stories
The Inheritance: And Other Stories
The Inheritance: And Other Stories
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The Inheritance: And Other Stories

Von Robin Hobb und Megan Lindholm

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“One of the most important writers in 21st-Century fantasy.”
—Contra Costa Times

“Robin Hobb is one of our very best fantasy writers…always fresh, entertaining, and completely engrossing.”
—New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

The Inheritance & Other Stories is a marvelous new collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling master storyteller Robin Hobb—including tales written under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm, by which the acclaimed fantasist first began her illustrious writing career. Included in this essential volume are Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short masterworks, as well as brand new tales and the never before published in the U.S. title story—a unique compendium of wonders displaying the breathtaking skill, imagination, and remarkably varied styles of both alter egos.

SpracheEnglish
HerausgeberHarperCollins
Erscheinungsdatum3. Mai 2011
ISBN9780062079312
The Inheritance: And Other Stories
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  • 3/5
    need the audio version of this book please! I don't have time to read.
  • 5/5
    The style of writing between the two pen names is clearly noticed. I am a fan of Robin Hobbs and this was my first time reading her as Megan L. I love them both. What a feast for the imagination the short stories are well developed and as usual takes you on journeys to other realms. Truly worth the time.
  • 5/5
    If you love Robin Hobb as much as do, you´ll no doubt love this collection of short stories.
  • 3/5
    Boek met een aantal korte verhaaltjes. Heb alleen de laatste drie gelezen, omdat die nog enige binding hadden met de verhalen uit de 'Zieners' reeks.

    Ben niet echt liefhebber van korte verhalen, omdat je je dan niet met een karakter kan identificeren, en ook deze verhalen waren daarop geen uitzondering.

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  • 4/5
    The Inheritance is a mostly great collection of short stories by Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb, both pseudonyms for the author Margaret Ogden. I'd only read Robin Hobb's novels before picking up this book, so I was intrigued to see how I'd get on with her writing as Megan Lindholm, which is more in the realm of urban fantasy. I loved A Touch of Lavender and Strays for their memorable characters. The other Lindholm stories were pretty good, but they didn't wow me quite as much.There are three Robin Hobb stories in the collection, all fairly lengthy and set in the Realm of the Elderlings. Homecoming, a story told through journal entries by a woman exiled to the Rain Wilds, was my favourite of these (although I did have to question how she was able to write some of the journal entries while in some rather sticky situations!). I really enjoyed this collection and am now going to hunt down the other Hobb stories that I haven't read yet, as well as the Lindholm novels!

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  • 4/5
    I have read all of the Robin Hobb novels, but the three stories included here were new to me, and I had never read Megan Lindholm stories before; I knew that the Lindholm stories were said to be a very different style from those the author rights as Robin Hobb, and they are. I am happy to report that I like them both.The Megan Lindholm stories are twisty little self contained tales, as likely to be SF as fantasy, and the fantasy is a quieter sort of magical realism. I think fans of Neil Gaiman's short stories would be a natural audience for them.The Robin Hobb stories are all set in the Realm of the Elderlings world, and are best appreciated as a part of the larger series, as some concepts are only hinted at that the full series explains. I found "Cat's Meat" somewhat anticlimactic for spoilery reasons that I won't mention, but even in that case I enjoyed the chance to revisit the world.

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  • 4/5
    Stories with a twist. Nothing formulaic here, but plenty to think about--I'll keep an eye out for more Lindholm and Hobb stories. Only "Homecoming" was a bit slow, due to the journal entry format, so actions and feelings were only talked about.
  • 4/5
    Using both voices Robin Hobb and Megan Lindholm present some short stories. More Lindholm than Hobb, still interesting.The collection starts with the Lindholm Stories.A Touch of Lavender is a story of contact with an alien race whose bodily secretions are addictive to humans and what happens through the eyes of one boy as humanity finds out more about this race.Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man is a story of magic and normality and finding a life that satisfies against a life that will do. It spoke to me and made me think about my life.Cut is a story that made me shudder, where do the rights to bodily integrity and right to choose what you do with your body start and finish and what is the right and wrong of bodily changes. This features Female Genital Mutilation and is an interesting start for discussion on the topic. The Fifth Squashed Cat is an intersting story about magic and being chosen and I'm still not sure who had the better thing happen to them at the end.Strays is a story about a child who befriends a friendless child and discovers her beliefs about cats and marking their passing. I found it both heartbreaking and touching.Finis is a vampire story with a difference and I liked it.Drum machine looks at reproductive rights and originality and the implications made me shudder.Then we have the Robin Hobb Stories I'd read Homecoming before in the Legends II anthology and I found this story of growth and coming into independent personhood interesting both times. It's a long short-story, almost a novella.The Inheritance was also interesting, a girl grows into herself by embracing her grandmother's past and gets her revenge on the man who ruined her life. The Revenge is subtle and typical of Hobb.In Cat's Meat Hobb explores what a woman is willing to do to stay alive and keep her child alive. How far she's willing to go and what happens when a cat decides she needs a helping hand.Well worth reading, excellent fare, the characters and the situations really did speak to me and made me think. While there was some situations that made me squirm it was an interesting squirm and all for the right reasons.