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Deborah L. Davitt

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Poetry

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Deborah L. Davitt was born at an Army hospital in Washington state, but spent the first twenty-two years of her life in Reno, Nevada.

She graduated first in her class from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1997, and took her BA in English Literature with a strong focus on medieval and Renaissance literature. In 1999, she received an MA in English from Penn State.

Since then, she has taught composition, rhetoric, and technical writing, and created technical documentation on topics ranging from nuclear submarines to NASA’s return to flight to computer hardware and software.

Her poetry has garnered her Pushcart and Rhysling nominations, and has appeared in over twenty journals; her short fiction has earned a finalist showing for the Jim Baen Adv ...more

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Deborah L. Davitt Honestly, I've been fascinated by Rome and other ancient cultures for years, and people around me have always liked to throw out the truism that "oh, …moreHonestly, I've been fascinated by Rome and other ancient cultures for years, and people around me have always liked to throw out the truism that "oh, we'd be on Mars by now if Rome hadn't fallen." With that at the back of my mind, I've always wondered what the world would have looked like if Rome hadn't fallen. . . and then, in the course of researching something else, I ran into a description of the Morning Star ritual as it was once enacted here in North America. Something went *ping* in my head, and I thought Hmm, Rome probably wouldn't have liked that much.

I started fleshing out the setting and the story, and a friend asked me if I thought they'd have magic. I'd never actually considered that. But once I did, technomancy and god-born all entered the world, and that gave us Edda.(less)

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Deborah L. Davitt Er, I don't actually have a favorite. I like the wit and humanity of Benedict and Beatrice in Much Ado about nothing, and it's hard not to like the fa…moreEr, I don't actually have a favorite. I like the wit and humanity of Benedict and Beatrice in Much Ado about nothing, and it's hard not to like the fact that Eliza and Darcy are both equally wrong in Pride and Prejudice (it's. . . right there in the title), and both have to grow, equally, to reach understanding.

Quite a lot of more modern examples have one or the other half of the couple not growing, or always being right, or always acting like the center of the universe (and the plot and other characters allow it), and that tends to irritate me. (less)

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	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2020 (F&SF, #748) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian Tregillis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dare Segun Falowo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Valkyrie (The Saga of Edda-Earth Book 1) 4.31 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Altered Europa by Martin T. Ingham, Dan Gainor (Goodreads Author), Sam Kepfield 3.21 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Goddess Denied (The Saga of Edda-Earth Book II) 4.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction #760 March/April 2022 by Sheree Renée Thomas (Editor), Meagan Beadle (Contributor), Matthew Hughes (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Goddess Embraced (The Saga of Edda-Earth Book 3) 4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ave, Caesarion 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gates of Never 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bounded by Eternity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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