"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. A damn fine reimagining of history and legend. Her take on the apparent inconsistencies in the lives of Marlowe and Shakespeare is certainly no less far-fetched than some that purport to be scholarly. Bear takes a period that is famously a maze of intrigue and treachery, adds more of each to the mix, and comes up with a fine story that even a mere mortal may follow. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic. There is a war to be fought with words both in and outside of the mortal realm. Elizabeth Bear received the Campbell Award as Best New Writer in 2005 and has since won two Hugo Awards. Buy Ink and Steel (Promethean Age) by Bear, Elizabeth from Amazons Fiction Books Store. Both endeavor to live, love, and do their duty. A group including Burbage and Oxford brings Will Shakespeare in to replace Marley, and while Will labors for Gloriana, Kit serves the Fae court. Complications arise when he wakes up in Faerie and is pressed into the service of another queen. Bear has done her homework for the setting of this delightful little piece of politicking that begins when Cristofer Marley, better known as Kit Marlowe, turns up stabbed through the eye and branded a traitor.
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