![]() When he presents his invention to the city government, things start to go wrong. The Alchemist is about a metal and glass worker who has given up all of his riches and is building an instrument which he hopes will destroy the bramble, restore his fortune, and give him the license to use magic to cure his daughter's wasting cough. Who cares if a patch of bramble sprouts in a stranger's garden if a magic spell might heal their only child? ![]() Magic is forbidden and those who are found using it are executed, yet some citizens are willing to risk their lives if a bit of magic might help them. Crews of workers must fight back the bramble daily, burning it and collecting its seeds. In this shared world, the use of magic causes the growth of bramble, a fast-growing, pervasive, and deadly plant that has taken over cities, making them uninhabitable. Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell offering linked fantasy novellas that take place in a shared world? Bacigalupi's story read by Jonathan Davis? What could be more promising? (It turns out that had I been familiar with Katherine Kellgren, who read Buckell's story, I would have been even more excited about this one!) ![]() The Alchemist and The Executioness caught my eye as soon as it went up at. ![]()
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