{"id":27865,"date":"2026-10-04T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T23:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27865"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:19:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:19:30","slug":"tales-from-the-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27865","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tales from the Territory<\/em> (2026) Travis Baldree<\/a> (Legends & Lattes)<\/p>\n

\"Tales<\/p>\n

Goblins & Greatcoats<\/strong><\/p>\n

There has been a terrible murder. Is the goblin going to be able to solve the case?<\/p>\n

Is that the Gatewarden? A goblin?\u201d stage-whispered the young warden.<\/p>\n

Zyll\u2019s long, pointed ears caught the murmuration of uncomfortable shrugs that followed. She didn\u2019t bother turning around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is my favorite story in the book. <\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Zyll, Ivorine, Xanthus, Cerise, Bartholomew, Azula, Magentum, Olivus, Bradlee, Cuthbert<\/p>\n

Just a Thimbleful<\/strong><\/p>\n

How Thimble came to work at Legends & Lattes.<\/p>\n

Every imagined future flavor was one he could taste in his mind, without doubt, the only possible ending of a journey from humble beginnings to golden flake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was my second favorite story–I really liked seeing things from Thimble’s PoV.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Thimble, Maddie, Penton, Viv<\/p>\n

Pages to Fill<\/strong><\/p>\n

This I’d read before as it’s a bonus in one of the books.<\/p>\n

You check the books for what somebody used to know. You check with the Scholar for what somebody knows now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Roon, Viv, Fennus, Gallina, Taivus, Bodkin, Leyton, Valeya<\/p>\n

Mirograph<\/strong><\/p>\n

This story was supposed to be a glimpse at Tandri’s past, but instead of telling us anything much about Tandri, it’s really a rant about AI.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Prof. Almeda Dupesne, Tandri, Gadsby<\/p>\n

Cavaliers & Coffees<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an epilogue of sorts to Legends & Lattes<\/em><\/a> but coming after Mirograph<\/em>‘s heavy-handed moral about AI, this read as a complaint about IP theft rather than adding much to the characters or the world.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Thimble, Viv, Cal, Delma, Ludo, Rufeus Redfell, Arden, Pendry, Laney, Madrigal<\/p>\n

As much as I liked the first two stories, closing on two stories I didn’t like left me with a somewhat negative impression of the anthology.<\/p>\n

Cover and interior illustrations by Leesha Hannigan<\/p>\n

Publisher: Subterranean Press<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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