Author of the Week: C.S. Friedman

C.S. Friedman was born in 1957 and soon proved to be a precocious child, reading and writing well above her age level. She discovered Isaac Asimov’s writing at the tender age of twelve (and if you are familiar with Asimov, you know he’s well capable of blowing the mind of adept adults…you can imagine the effect on a twelve-year-old), and decided that science fiction was the ultimate literature. (She changed her mind at some point to include fantasy, which I will get to in good time.)
Before publishing her first novel, In Conquest Born, Friedman studied costume design and earned an [...]