After a moment he turned from her and continued down to the docks. Inspired by the pre-Columbia cultures of the Americas, which the author acknowledges usually receives scant attention in the fantasy genre which is more likely than not to set itself in an anglocentric, medieval landscape, Black Sun is that rare, precious thing – a novel which tells an epically involving story populated by memorably complex characters which carries with it portent far beyond the pellmell narrative which grips you from the first page to the thrilling last.įantasies are generally intensely told tales since they come with titanic struggles between good and evil, between the sclerotic and the innovative, the aged and the new, but somehow Black Sun amps up the intensity still further, its story one of outliers finally finding themselves at the centre of the world from which they have long been excluded. True though that may be, it doesn’t preclude the ability of any author, of taking those well-used pieces and creating something truly, remarkably original which is precisely what gifted writer Rebecca Roanhorse has done with Black Sun, the first entry in her Between Earth and Sky trilogy which has been joined by Fevered Star this year. A world-weary lament often thrown up, laced with more than a little weary resignation, is that there is nothing truly original under the sun, the product of the fact that though humanity is rich with imagination, that there are so many types of stories that can be told.
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