New from Birdverse: Glassmaker and Jeweler


I have a new Birdverse story out at Uncanny Magazine, and for a change, it’s not a novelette. “The Desert Glassmaker and the Jeweler of Berevyar” is a happy, hopeful story about two artists and their art, and I am very happy to share it with you.

Charles Payseur reviews it at Quick Sips:

And the story takes the shape of two people exchanging letters. About art and craft but also about seeing the world and learning of each other and a yearning that finally bridges so much distance and difference. The story is set in the same world that the author has used many times, and every time I step back into that world I am delighted and left wanting more. […] And there is the inherent tension to the relationship, to the correspondence, to the waiting. That waiting is full of implications and flights of the imagination and worry, full of things that seem to spill from the ether…

And Sara Norja writes in her Sunday Recs: Rose Lemberg’s Birdverse:

…this is a happy story – ah, marvellously joyful and hopeful, though not without conflict. It’s written in an epistolary format, which is something that I really enjoy. Two artists meet and share their art, and more. Rose always writes exquisitely, but the language here is really something special. The words in these particular arrangements sparkle like jewels, like shimmering shards of coloured glass.

(She also reviews Geometries of Belonging in the same entry!)

Finally, Liz Argall has been publishing a special Uncanny feature of her webcomic Things Without Arms and Without Legs, reacting to a story in Uncanny Magazine, and this month’s installment reacts to Glassmaker and Jeweler! Hurray!

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