A recent story here reminded me of one from an Author that published one about 8 years ago, and then they disappeared. I do not want to pop any bubbles or offend any sensibilities, so I won't name the Author nor Story Title.
The Pique of my curiosity "peaked" to night so I decided to see what happened to that Author if I could. After searching for too long tonight, I think the story came from a Sci Fi Book as Fan Fiction, or perhaps from a Video Game.
I might buy the book, but I won't bother with the Video Game, since they turn me off. I'll keep my further snotty comments to myself.
At any rate, I think the story in question was likely among the best Sci Fi I have seen on this site. I wish the Author the best.
Gwen
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Evil Woman! ;-)
First you tease us with a nice story, and then you refuse to name it so we could enjoy it too.
Would you reconsider pointing us to that story?
I Don't Understand...
...why you're writing this. If you're looking for answers as to what happened to the writer or what universe it was written in, obviously we can't try to help you without knowing what it is. Same, of course, if you're seeking to find out where you can read/watch whatever it's based upon.
If you're recommending the story to us, there'd seem to be no point without the title or the author. If you're trying to convey your praise for someone's effort, I doubt that they'd recognize themselves without more concrete information.
Eric
Legacy of The Anari
The Author, Ashleigh Blayze was very good, though I think there are Authors on the site now that are at least her equal. I discovered that the phrase "Legacy of the Anari" is in a book in print, but I have no idea if our Author wrote this book, or simply read it. I suppose that the premise could have spawned a Video Game.
It is dangerous to make assumptions about Authors. One of my favorites, "back in the day" was Poul Anderson, and if my memory serves me correctly, he was a house painter. That knowledge is what gave me the courage to attempt to write myself, though I have enjoyed less success.
When I was starting to get into writing, the old world was passing away and now Computers and nepotism make it very difficult. Amazon, and their likes, in my opinion, simply feed off the innocent, and pay little.
It is disappointing to me that the spark of life is rapidly departing from me. The decline in my health seems precipitous, and now that it has begun, I do hope that it is rapid because I would like to go before the Home Care and Nursing Home leeches begin to feed on me. I am fortunate because Oregon has a Right To Die Law.
Poul Anderson
I read Three Hearts and Three Lions as a teenager, and it turned me on to fantasy fiction. I later also enjoyed reading his The High Crusade. In reading his biography on Wikipedia, I find no reference to him ever having been a house painter.
I was likely wrong.
I did find the phrase "Legacy of the Anari" in a book called "Shadows of Prophecy" by Rachel Lee. And, as I suspected, there is a video game that has the same terms.
At any rate, it was a very nice story.
The Anari...
...are a race in Rachel Lee's fantasy trilogy, The Ilduin. Amazon says the books were published in 2006, 2007 and 2009 as mass-market paperbacks by the Luna imprint of Harlequin. Lee is praised in the ad copy as a writer of "exciting tales of romantic suspense". She has an ongoing 60-book series, Conard County, in the Contemporary Romance category.
Ashleigh Blayze's Legacy of the Anari Book One here on BC was written in 2011-12; the blog entries that accompany it make it clear that her story was still being written as it was posted.
But judging from the first chapter or so of Lee's first book of the Ilduin series (found on Google Books) the settings don't match at all, Lee's Anari, a black race, are involved in a slave revolt (along with white allies with Western names; the title characters of the series, the Ilduin, are their female mages) against white humans led by "dark forces not of this world" and male "hivemaster" mages who can bind people into group-minds. Given Clarke's Law, the magic and prophecy here might conceivably turn into the science of Legacy, but it's not the way to bet; these backgrounds seem solidly in the fantasy tradition, sword and sorcery subgenre.
Eric
No accusations or criticisms
I really like stories that might have incidental gender change and especially if it is Sci Fi. I'll likely look her books up.
Gwen