shewhomust | If you liked Firedrake in Concatenations, you'll love this

moshui's forthcoming Jade Man's Skin gets its oddest 'review' yet on something calling itself 'Ursula's Space' (http://peacescbqj.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DFA921FDF0C3B16B!160.entry).

The 'review' is the publisher's blurb (as it appears on Amazon, for example), but run through BabelFish or equivalent in both directions. I can think of various reasons why you might do this: to pad out a link-blog with fake content, to make money through Amazon links, say. But it doesn't seem to be doing any of these - the only link is back to Daniel Fox's own web site.

The processed text is quite wonderful, though:

Therein surging epos, Daniel Fox interweaves the ancient myths and fables of feudalistic PRC into a fairyland of roughshod warfare and brickle passionateness, immortal God and mystic brutes.

With the long-chained firedrake now free and the Reb ' invasion boomed by her triumphal rage, the balance of powerfulness holds modified. Offspring emperor Chien HUM is no more fighting for endurance; now he is ambitious to retaliate. As unreliable General Ping Steatocystoma voicelessnesses in the emperor 's ear, not even Chien Harkat-ul-Mujahidin 's darling courtesan or his most sworn escort can conclude with him. Worse, prolonged exposure to wizardly jadestone is modifying him radically: His increasingly divine powers are doing him dangerously rash.

But with the firedrake policing the skies above and the strait beneath, the emperor 's forces hold no hope of founding a counterattackuntil a goddess locomotes to interfere. Yet neither the clangoring of armies nor the opposing volitions of goddess and firedrake can determine ultimate triumph or licking. The destiny of the warfare lies in the blood-deep bonds between the firedrake and the boy Han, her screw and her liberatorand in the costs both will invite their freedom.