![]() The world-building is stunning, and Missy’s challenges feel incredibly real as do her reactions to amazing worlds she’s put in. ![]() “ The Dragons of Heaven combines superheroes, romance, ancient mythological China, and does it right. Helms keeps this complicated mix of genres, worlds, and eras (modern, historic, mythic) in balance and in motion throughout the book, leaving me eager for more.” “In her first novel The Dragons of Heaven, Alyc Helms explores various San Franciscos (the city as it is, was, and looks to passing tourists), as well as the creatures different cultures and their myths collectively call “dragons”, with an emphasis on the Chinese version. – Marie Brennan, author of A Natural History of Dragons Mystic isn’t the usual heroic training montage – but it’s a hell of a lot of fun.” Helms isn’t content simply to play in the genre she questions it, complicates it, adds layers it didn’t have eighty years ago. “All the fun of pulp adventure, filtered through a twenty-first century lens. ![]()
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