October 27, 2009

Mooching a meme from a friend, and tweaking it for fantasy, my favorite 5 fantastic nonhumans, in no particular order: Gerald Tarrant, “Coldfire Trilogy”, C. S. Friedman. I have a thing for humans who become nonhuman, especially if they embrace the change and leave their old selves behind completely. But I get tired of overdone varieties of this, like vampires. Tarrant embodies this transformation with a marvelous complexity — he feeds on blood, but only as a last resort, finding simple vampirism too crude for his tastes. He prefers to feed on cold and darkness and just general evil. But […]