Smith Spark, Anna
Entry updated 25 March 2024. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) UK author known mainly for her grimdark fantasy [for Dark Fantasy here and Hidden Monarch below see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], who has also written as Anna Smith-Spark; she began to publish work of genre interest with "A Moment in the Conquest of the World" in BFS Horizons for August 2017. Her first series, the Empires of Dust sequence beginning with The Court of Broken Knives (2017), depicts on a wide canvas the dark days surrounding the ascension of a Hidden Monarch to the throne of an empire struggling to survive in what resembles and may be a Dying Earth. Her first singleton, A Woman of the Sword (2023), conveys a narrative of Military-Sf incessancy through the eyes of a woman warrior (see Women in SF); A Sword of Bronze and Ashes (2023) features a not dissimilar protagonist, who is in this case Immortal and/or the Reincarnation of a profoundly earlier sin-bearing warrior (see Time Abyss). [JC]
Anna Smith Spark [or Smith-Spark]
born London: 1 January
work
series
Empires of Dust
- The Court of Broken Knives (London: Harper Voyager, 2017) [Empires of Dust: hb/Gene Mollica]
- The Tower of Living and Dying (London: Harper Voyager, 2018) [Empires of Dust: hb/]
- The House of Sacrifice (London: Harper Voyager, 2019) [Empires of Dust: hb/]
individual titles
- A Woman of the Sword (Edinburgh, Scotland: Luna Press Publishing, 2023) [hb/]
- A Sword of Bronze and Ashes (London: Flame Tree Press, 2023) [hb/]
links
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Dark Fantasy; Hidden Monarch.
- Picture Gallery
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