I’ve finally decided to finish off the last of Charles de Lint’s Newford books that I own before finishing his older works. That means Someplace To Be Flying and The Onion Girl will be my next targets. 😀
Someplace to Be Flying is set in Newford and environs, and is steeped in corvid (crow family) mythology – a Trickster tale involving Raven and Coyote, and a flock of punky “crow girls” on modern city streets, detailing the effect of their presence on a group of ordinary people. While some of the characters previously introduced in the short stories “Heartfires,” “Crow Girls” and “Twa Corbies” make return appearances, most of the cast is new.
In honor of starting another of his books, here is what some reviewers have said:
He shows that, far from being escapism, contemporary fantasy can be the deep mythic literature of our time. – Fantasy & Science Fiction
There is no better writer now than Charles de Lint at bringing out the magic in contemporary life…The best of the post King fantasists, the one with the clearest vision of the possibilities of magic in a modern setting.- Orson Scott Card
Charles de Lint is a folksinger as well as a writer and it is this voice we hear…both old and new, lyric, longing, touched by magic.- Jane Yolen
With The Little Country Charles de Lint has escalated from fine writer to writer of classics. – Gordon R. Dickson
One of the most gifted storytellers writing fantasy today. – Locus
Read some Charles de Lint books, you won’t be disappointed.
2 comments on “Someplace To Be Flying”
I haven’t read the whole book, but what I *have* of Someplace is GREAT. I really love the whole shapeshifters undertheme to it.
It’s becoming my second favorite full length Charles DeLint novel, after ‘Memory and Dream’.
😀 Great. I’m only a few pages into it myself. I really like crows a lot and have enjoyed all of Charles’ other crow related stories very much so I think I’ll really like this one. I have a feeling Onion Girl will be my favorite overall because of it being Jilly’s story though.