Literary Birthday – 22 May – Tansy Rayner Roberts

Happy Birthday, Tansy Rayner Roberts, born on 22 May 1978.

Tansy Rayner Roberts Quotes

1. What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
2. History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
3. One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
4. Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

Tansy Rayner Roberts is an Australian fantasy and science fiction author who lives in southern Tasmania. She also writes crime fiction as Livia Day. Tansy has a PhD in Classics (with a special interest in poisonous Roman ladies), and an obsession with Musketeers. Tansy’s books include cozy fantasy, classic literature re-written as space opera (or with dragons!), as well as darker sword & sorcery titles. Her books include The Teacup Magic series, starting with Tea and Sympathetic Magic. Her short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Aurealis. Her latest book is Curse of Bronze. Follow her on Instagram.

Source for photograph: Catriona Sparks from Wollongong, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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by Amanda Patterson

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