Sing the Light, Sing the Warmth, and Receive the Gift comprise the trilogy of The Singers of Nevya, completed in 1997. A follow-up novel, Singer in the Snow, was published in 2004. These novels, unlike my other works, are science fantasy, which is to say they are soft science fiction with one fantastic element, in […]
This book from Fairwood Press contains ten stories of science fiction and fantasy, two of them never before published. From the introduction by Lou Anders, editor and writer: Good science fiction makes you think–but all good fiction of any stripe makes you feel, and (Louise) accomplishes both goals masterfully. From the back cover: Louise Marley’s short stories […]
My very first novel, Sing the Light, and the two novels that followed it, are set in the world of Nevya, an ice planet where energy is generated psychically, focused through music. It was a world that sprang from my own long experience as a musician and singer, that expressed my feelings about what it is […]
Winner of the 2005 Endeavour Award A priest of the Order of Mary Magdalene and a skilled anthropologist, Isabel Burke has been called offworld to the barren planet of Virimund. The ExtraSolar Corporation, developing Virimund as an energy source, has encountered an ‘incident’ that has stopped their work. It seems there are people on Virimund […]
Hailed by the New York Review of Science Fiction as “a writer of considerable talent,” Louise Marley takes us into the life of a young woman who—spurred by a quest for justice—braves the world outside her sheltered existence… In the final few years of the twenty-first century, life in Paris is quiet for Ebriel Serique […]
Winner of the 2001 Endeavour Award Praised by the Everett Herald as an author who “makes her writing sing,” Louise Marley takes us into the lives of two young women of two different times–bound by a passion for the ethereal music of the glass harmonica . . . Eilish Eam is an orphan living in […]
On the planet of Irustan, one woman is fighting back . . . Zahra IbSada is a talented medicant, and sees much of the joy in the lives of the women she heals–and much of the pain. She sees a wife brutally beaten, a prostitute suffering at the hands of her employers. And her best […]
Driven by insane jealousy, Duke William is determined to found his own flying school, where the valuable flying horses of Oc will learn to bond with well-born young men—instead of arrogant women. Now, Larkyn Hamley and her beloved Black Seraph must gather all of their allies from the air to the ground. For if they […]
Larkyn Hamley, the free-spirited country girl who accidentally bonded with a winged horse, is in her second term at the Academy of the Air when the savage Aesks attack a northern village. The Duke refuses to respond, and Larkyn and her beloved teacher, Horsemistress Philippa Winter, find themselves in direct conflict with Duke William as […]
Airs Beneath the Moon is a story of the winged horses of Oc and the women and girls who fly them. The girls who bond with a winged horse spend six years at the Academy of the Air, training. Their bondmates are closer to them than any family member could be, and they devote their […]