Madeleine E. Robins
Madeleine Robins may have invented the Regency Noir detective story, and likes to play with history, reality, and the odd sword.
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Writing gives Madeleine Robins the chance to focus on many fascinations: with cities, history, swordplay, the history of disease, and the future of mankind–with a side order of historical costuming and urban infrastructure. Robins has had a checkered career that includes being a nanny, an editor, and a stage-combatant, as well as the author of a dozen books. She holds a degree in Theatre Studies from Connecticut College, and attended the Clarion Science Fiction Workshop in 1981. She is a founding member of the BookViewCafe, where her first five books — all Regency romances — are available for sale. A lifelong and passionate fan of all things urban, Robins now lives in San Francisco, where her day job is at the American Bookbinders Museum.
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Nimuë's Tale
Published Aug 11, 2019 · 7,020 words (26 minutes) · 52 views
Fantasy magic Merlin Arthuriana The Lady of the Lake
Nimuë killed the old enchanter and fled from Camelot, love and loss behind her. Then a stranger came to her home bringing love--and the prospect of loss. Somewhere, Merlin was laughing.
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Abelard's Kiss
Published Jun 17, 2019 · 6,406 words (24 minutes) · 144 views
Science Fiction genetic engineering sex toys
I got the opening line of this story--"Beatrice's lover was made of lip"-- when I was 17. It took me twenty years to figure out where to go from there. The result: a story about a sex toy genetically coded to its owner, a notion I still find deeply disturbing.
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La Vie en Ronde
Published May 3, 2019 · 6,244 words (23 minutes) · 3 views
Science Fiction Family inner worlds vertigo
As she loses her place in the daily world in which her body resides, Vivey finds a new world, and a new family, deep among the people in the round places.
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Willie
Published Apr 5, 2019 · 3,269 words (12 minutes) · 5 views
Fantasy parenting Frankenstein Mad science
Mary Shelley--a young mother dragged all over Europe in the wake of her poet husband--created a monster: Victor Frankenstein, who creates life and abandons it. But what if he'd stayed? How do you raise a very unusual child? It turns out: one day at a time.
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Somewhere In Dreamland Tonight
Published Mar 28, 2019 · 4,931 words (18 minutes) · 2 views
Fantasy Historical Romance vampire Coney Island 1900
Innocence can be dangerous when you confuse romance with something else. Something you cannot understand, framed against the glittering lights of Coney Island in its heyday.
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The Boy Who Played Air Guitar
Published Mar 5, 2019 · 6,104 words (23 minutes) · 2 likes · 9 views
Sometimes music is playing right in front of us. What does it take to hear it?
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Boon
Published Mar 5, 2019 · 7,397 words (27 minutes) · 2 likes · 11 views
Fantasy Elves New York City Brownies
Elfland in Alphabet City
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Mules
Published Mar 5, 2019 · 7,242 words (27 minutes) · 3 likes · 11 views
Science Fiction Love Immortality Life extension history
“Living a long time is just like living any other kind of time,” he said at last. “The seconds don’t expand or anything; you don’t live differently. You just live more.”
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