{"id":10943,"date":"2018-07-10T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2026-02-11T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T01:59:13","slug":"voyage-of-the-basilisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/10943","title":{"rendered":"Voyage of the Basilisk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voyage of the Basilisk<\/a><\/em> (2015) Marie Brennan<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The third installment of the Memoirs of Lady Trent finds Isabella on a ship with her son, his governess, and her friend Tom Wilker touring the world while continuing her research on dragons.<\/p>\n

I found my quarters at first shockingly small, then acceptable, then unbearable, and finally as unworthy of comment as the water in which a fish swims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On this tour she continues to make discoveries (including getting to dissect an arctic sea serpent).<\/p>\n

I thought of the six criteria customarily used to distinguish \u201ctrue dragons\u201d from draconic creatures: quadrupedalism, flight-capable wings, a ruff or fan behind the skull, bones frangible after death, oviparity, and extraordinary breath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meets many people, both explorers and natives.<\/p>\n

I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life. <\/p>\n

I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And gets herself in and out of danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou did not tell me there was any such danger!\u201d I said to her\u2014 it may have been more of a shout. <\/p>\n

She apologized for this lapse, though with an expression that suggested I should have had the brains to realize that the dead ground was not safe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But most of all there is science and natural history in all their geeky gloriousness.<\/p>\n

How did lower forms give rise to higher? Which ones were the lower forms, if the family included everything from sparklings to swamp-wyrms, fire-lizards to wolf-drakes? And if it did not include all those things, then where did the boundary belong?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an utterly delightful story, and I remain entranced. <\/p>\n

And I want to note that these remain some of the most gorgeous covers I’ve come across in recent years.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Tor Books
\nRating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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