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A Dazzling Cover for a Legend Retold: Revealing Nicola Griffith’s Spear

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A Dazzling Cover for a Legend Retold: Revealing Nicola Griffith’s Spear

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Published on May 13, 2021

Photo: Jennifer Durham
Spear by Nicola Griffith
Photo: Jennifer Durham

We are thrilled the share the cover for Spear, a glorious queer retelling of Arthurian legend, full of dazzling magic and intoxicating adventure, from the Nebula and Lambda Award-winning author Nicola Griffith. Spear will be available from Tordotcom Publishing on April 19, 2022.

A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of Hild

The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she knows that her future lies at his court.

And so, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and, with a broken hunting spear and mended armour, rides on a bony gelding to Caer Leon. On her adventures she will meet great knights and steal the hearts of beautiful women. She will fight warriors and sorcerers. And she will find her love, and the lake, and her fate.

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Cover art by Rovina Cai; Design by Christine Foltzer

 

Nicola Griffith (she/her) is a dual UK/US citizen living in Seattle. She is the author of seven award-winning novels, including Hild and Ammonite, and her shorter work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, New York Times, etc. She is the founder and co-host of #CripLit, holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, and enjoys a ferocious bout of wheelchair boxing. She is married to novelist and screenwriter Kelley Eskridge.

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