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Publishers Weekly called Daughter of the Empire a "full-bodied dynastic fantasy" with "the sweep and drama of a good historical novel about an exotic time and place." [1] A column in Vector compared the first book to "a female Shōgun with fantasy/SF elements" and praised its characterization. [2]
Publishers Weekly called Daughter of the Empire a "full-bodied dynastic fantasy" with "the sweep and drama of a good historical novel about an exotic time and place." [4] A column in Vector compared the first book to "a female Shōgun with fantasy/SF elements" and praised its characterization. [5]
Ira Mukhoty is an Indian author. [1] [2] She studied natural sciences at University of Cambridge.[3]Her book Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History (2017, Aleph Books: ISBN 978-9384067496) tells the tales of mythical heroines including Draupadi and Radha, and "six real women who played extraordinary roles but who weren’t written into textbooks as were their male counterparts ...
Mistress of the Empire is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. It is the third and final book in the Empire Trilogy and was published in 1992. It was preceded by Servant of the Empire , which was published in 1990.
Servant of the Empire is a fantasy novel by American writers Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts. [1] Published in 1990, it is the second book in the Empire Trilogy , preceded by 1987's Daughter of the Empire and followed by Mistress of the Empire in 1992.
The plot is split among the points of view of the various characters, winding from one to the next, and eventually connecting. The setting is an empire consisting of many floating islands upon the Endless Sea. Lin is the daughter of the tyrannical emperor of the Phoenix Empire, but must compete to become his heir with Bayan, his foster son.
Chakraborty was born and raised in New Jersey to Catholic parents [9] and converted to Islam in her teens; [10] Chakraborty is her married name. [11] She originally intended to be a historian specializing in the Middle East; however, the financial crisis around 2008 derailed those plans, so while she worked to support herself and her husband, she also kept herself occupied by writing what she ...
Iris Macfarlane (22 July 1922 – 12 February 2007) was a British writer.. Her memoir, Daughters of the Empire: A Memoir of Life and Times in the British Raj, covers her life as the wife of a wealthy tea planter in Assam in northeast British India.