Mistification / Kaaron Warren
“Like walking from a dream into a mythical land both familiar and delightfully strange.
A tale of tolerance and survival, in a fascinating and beautifully realised world.”
– Trudi Canavan, author of the Black Magician Trilogy (describing Walking the Tree)
“Kaaron Warren is a fresh, amazingly talented voice out of Australia.
You must read her work.”
– Ellen Datlow
Marvo is a stage magician. His magic is real.
Marvo grows up without knowing his parents, without knowing his heritage, without knowing much about life.
The magicians have always been with us, since the beginning of civilisation. They fill our heads with the mist, keeping us from witnessing the stark reality of existence. But are things so bad that Marvo will bring it down on all of us, forever?
Marvo begins to understand those around him, and his place in the world; he discovers that his remarkable powers can be put to good, or to evil.
He only has to choose…
FILE UNDER: Fantasy [ True Magic / Find the Lady / All is Illusion / Bring the Mist ]
Chosen for the Locus Best Fantasy of 2011 list
More praise for Mistification:
“Nevertheless, Mistification begins marvelously, austere and mysterious, and it ends on a truly grand conjuration laden with emotional resonance. Warren saves her best trick for the encore performance, and it sounds out a note of such tremendous follow-through, finally, that judged only on its first and last acts, Mistification could be among the year’s most powerful dark fantasies.”
“Misitification is a book like no other. That sounds cliché, but in this case it’s absolutely true.”
“The ending is startling and strange. The imagery and events put me in mind of a certain religious story, but this isn’t in your face and readers are left to draw their own conclusions about what this means. There’s certainly a lot to think about…”
- Ros Jackson, WarpcoreSF
Another astonishingly imaginative novel from the acclaimed author of Slights and Walking the Tree.
MISTIFICATION
Fantasy
Cover: Argh! Nottingham
UK/Australia
June 2011
416pp B-format paperback
£7.99 UK
ISBN 978-0-85766-108-1
US/Canada
July 2011
432pp mass-market paperback
$7.99 US $8.99 CAN
ISBN 978-0-85766-109-8
eBook
June 2011
£5.49
ePub ISBN 978-0-85766-110-4
Mistification by Kaaron Warren | WikiSis:
May 17th, 2011 at 12:12 am
[...] Marvo begins to understand those around him, and his place in the world; he discovers that his remarkable powers can be put to good, or to evil. publisher [...]
MISTIFICATION by Kaaron Warren – read an extract! « The Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild:
May 18th, 2011 at 8:44 am
[...] Warren’s latest novel Mistification will hit shelves this June, but now we don’t need to wait that long to get a taste of the [...]
Review: Mistification « Kaaron Warren:
August 12th, 2011 at 3:23 am
[...] Jeyathurai, who received the prize for owning the first copy in Singapore of Mistification, has posted a wonderful review at his website, Living in [...]
Review: Mistification « Kaaron Warren:
September 13th, 2011 at 11:47 pm
[...] at A Fantastical Librarian, has posted an insightful review of Mistification. She’s understood so well what I was trying to do with the novel, and understood the [...]
Horror Writers Association Blog » Blog Archive » Interview with HWA Member Kaaron Warren:
March 11th, 2012 at 12:55 am
[...] KW: Mistification [...]
Ditmar Awards « Kaaron Warren:
April 26th, 2012 at 9:41 am
[...] very happy to announce that my novel Mistification has been nominated in the Best Novel category of the Ditmar Awards, and my short story All You Can [...]
Marlyn Morny « Kaaron Warren:
May 5th, 2012 at 8:53 am
[...] remembered that I had included Marlyn Morny, very briefly, in Mistification! The novel not only carries lots of footnotes, but lots of mini stories, as well. Here is one of [...]
Robot Round-Up, 18.05.12 :: Angry Robot Books | The City Robotics Site:
May 19th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
[...] Warren‘s Mistification has been reviewed (in Latvian) by Lasitaja at Lasītājas piezīmes who draws comparisons with [...]
Review – Mistification by Kaaron Warren « Lexifabricographer:
June 18th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
[...] the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012, and in fact my third review of a Kaaron Warren novel. Mistification (published by Angry Robot) is her third published novel, following on from Slights and Walking the [...]
Kaaron Warren – Mistification | A Fantastical Librarian:
October 17th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
[...] He only has to choose… (Description taken from the publisher’s website) [...]