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Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book , and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award , for her book Death's Master .

✵ 19. September 1947 – 24. May 2015   •   Other names تانیت لی
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Tanith Lee Quotes

“The stink of madness is unsubtle here. Let us be going.”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Prologue, “The Tower of Baybhelu”(p. 36)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Delusion's Master (1981)

Madness

“What else is she like?”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

The Eshva sighed at the touch of Azhrarn’s fingers. The sigh said this: Like a white moth at dusk, a night-blooming lily. Like music played by the reflection of a swan as it passes over the strings of a moonlit lake.
Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 1 “Honey-Sweet” (p. 127)
Tales from the Flat Earth, Night's Master (1978)

“Who would dare invite such a smoke? To some it might be healing, but to others, bane. Breathed in at the nostrils, it seemed to fill the eyes and ears and brain. To a man who knew many things, it would reveal many more, to a man who knew little it would reveal too much. Its name was self-knowledge.”

Tanith Lee Tales from the Flat Earth

Tales from the Flat Earth, Night's Master (1978)
Source: Book 3 “The World’s Lure”, Chapter 4 “The Anger of the Magicians” (p. 163)

Knowledge