Karin Lowachee was born in South America, grew up in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her first science fiction novel won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Her next two SF novels were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2006, Cagebird won the Prix Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English and the Spectrum Award. Her books have been translated into French, Hebrew, and Japanese. The Gaslight Dogs is her first fantasy novel. Learn more at 
The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee
Karin Lowachee, who has written three highly acclaimed SF novels, released her first fantasy novel, The Gaslight Dogs, in April 2010 — and it’s another good one. The novel has two memorable main characters, Sjennonirk (or Sjenn for short) and Jarrett, as well as several well-drawn side characters. Sjenn is the young spiritwalker of her Anwi (think: Inuit) tribe, who finds herself taken captive by the Ciracusan army and transported from the frozen north to the gaslit city of Nev Anyan. Jarrett is a captain in the Ciracusan army — and the son of a powerful general — who returns on leave to the same city after a fearful encounter with Qoyotariz, a warrior of one of the many tribes Ciracusa is battling.
This is a strong, emotionally gripping novel that deserves much more attention than it received when it first came out. Karin Lowachee’s prose is ... Read More
