Tom Sleigh

1 week ago | wordswithoutborders.org | Rachel Cordasco |Tom Sleigh

School of Shards, the final installment in Marina and Sergey Dyachenko’s Vita Nostra dark fantasy series, asks us to consider the possibility that the universe is made solely out of language. This idea is based on the Book of Genesis, when God makes a series of pronouncements about light and darkness, Heaven and Earth, and animals and people, calling these material things into being.