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Praise for Laurie J. Marks’s Elemental Logic novels:
Fire Logic
“Marks has created a work filled with an intelligence that zings off the page.”
—Publishers
Weekly
(Starred Review)
“Marks is an absolute master of fantasy in this book. Her characters are beau-
tifully drawn, showing tremendous emotional depth and strength as they endure
the unendurable and strive always to do the right thing, and her unusual use of
the elemental forces central to her characters’ lives gives the book a big boost.
This is read-it-straight-through adventure!”
—Booklist (Starred Review)
“A deftly painted story of both cultures and magics in conflict. Marks avoids
the black-and-white conflicts of generic fantasy to offer a window on a complex
world of unique cultures and elemental magic.”
—Robin Hobb
“Cuts deliciously through the mind to the heart with the delicacy, strength,
beauty, and surgical precision of the layered Damascus steel blade that provides
one of the book’s central images.”
—Candas Jane Dorsey
“Laurie Marks brings skill, passion, and wisdom to her new novel. Entertaining
and engaging—an excellent read!”
—Kate Elliott
“This is a treat: a strong, fast-paced tale of war and politics in a fantasy world
where magic based on the four elements of alchemy not only works but power-
fully affects the lives of those it touches. An unusual, exciting read.”
—Suzy McKee Charnas
“A glorious cast of powerful, compelling, and appealingly vulnerable characters
struggling to do the right thing in a world gone horribly wrong. I couldn’t put
this down until I’d read it to the end. Marks truly understands the complex forces
of power, desire, and obligation.”
—Nalo Hopkinson
“Most intriguingly, about two-thirds of the way into the book, the low-key magi-
cal facets of her characters’ elemental magics rise away from simply being fancy
“weapons” and evoke—for both the readers and the characters—that elusive
sense of wonder.”
—Charles de Lint,
The Magazine of Fantasy & ScienceFiction
“An exquisite novel of quiet charm.
Fire Logic
is a tale of war and magic, of duty,
love and betrayal, of despair encompassed by hope.”
—SF
Site
Earth Logic
“The powerful but subtle writing glows with intelligence, and the passionate,
fierce, articulate, strong, and vital characters are among the most memorable in
contemporary fantasy, though not for the faint of heart. Definitely for the think-
ing reader.”
—Booklist (Starred Review)
“The sequel to
Fire Logic
continues the tale of a woman born to magic and des-
tined to rule. Vivid descriptions and a well-thought-out system of magic.”
—Library
Journal
“Twenty years after the invading Sainnites won the Battle of Lilterwess, the struggle
for the world of Shaftal is far from finished in Marks’s stirring, intricately detailed
sequel to
Fire Logic.
. . . Full of love and humor as well as war and intrigue, this well-
crafted epic fantasy will delight existing fans as surely as it will win new ones.”
—Publishers
Weekly
“Rich and affecting. . . . A thought-provoking and sometimes heartbreaking political
novel.”
—BookPage
“Earth
Logic
is not a book of large battles and heart-stopping chases; rather, it’s
more gradual and contemplative and inexorable, like the earth bloods who people
it. It’s a novel of the everyday folk who are often ignored in fantasy novels, the
farmers and cooks and healers. In this novel, the everyday lives side by side with
the extraordinary, and sometimes within it; Karis herself embodies the power of
ordinary, mundane methods to change the world.”
—SF
Revu
“It is an ambitious thing to do, in this time of enemies and hatreds, to suggest
that a conflict can be resolved by peaceable means. Laurie Marks believes that it
can be done, and she relies relatively little on magic to make it work.”
—Cheryl Morgan,
Emerald City
“Earth
Logic
is intelligent, splendidly visualized, and beautifully written. Laurie
Marks’s use of language is really tremendous.”
—Paula Volsky
“A dense and layered book filled with complex people facing impossible choices.
Crammed with unconventional families, conflicted soldiers, amnesiac storytell-
ers, and practical gods, the story also finds time for magical myths of origin and
moments of warm, quiet humor. Against a bitter backdrop of war and winter,
Marks offers hope in the form of various triumphs: of fellowship over chaos, the
future over the past, and love over death.”
—Sharon Shinn
“A powerful and hopeful story where the peacemakers are as heroic as the war-
riors; where there is magic in good food and flower bulbs; and where the most
powerful weapon of all is a printing press.”
—Naomi Kritzer
Fire Logic

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