Comments on: Walking the Tree / Kaaron Warren

By: Books of 2012 – January « Lexifabricographer

Books of 2012 – January « Lexifabricographer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:03:23 +0000

[...] Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren (library copy, paperback, an Australian Women Writers challenge contender). Even with a month that included Policeman and Winter’s Night, the award for the downright strangest thing I read all month goes hand-down to Walking the Tree. On an island which seems to constitute their entire world, the young women of small coastal communities lead groups of children on a years-long educational circumnavigation of the vast Tree at its centre. As they visit one community after another, the children learn about the various cultures of the island, Botanica, and the women seek a place to settle down. This is some exemplary worldbuilding – each new village has its own distinct culture: crafts, sciences, cooking, superstitions, sexual traditions, beliefs about how to treat the Tree, behaviour towards outsiders etc. It’s a thoughtful – though never preachy or obvious – examination of gender politics, cultural tolerance and the role of tradition and superstition in shaping communities. It’s also a tense, suspenseful drama – the longer that protagonist Lillah keeps her deadly secret, the fewer allies she can depend on for protection. I think that it might do this beautiful, melancholy journey an unfortunate disservice to classify it as an epic anthropological mystery, but I think that’s as close as I can get. [...]

By: Meet Kaaron Warren … |

Meet Kaaron Warren … | — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 06:48:44 +0000

[...] Walking the Tree is your second book. Even after reading the blurb I find it hard to pin down the genre. What theme [...]

By: Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren vs. Veracity by Laura Bynum « Bookspread

Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren vs. Veracity by Laura Bynum « Bookspread — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:32:23 +0000

[...] Walking the Tree, by Kaaron Warren, and Veracity, by Laura Bynum, are two dystopian science-fiction novels that have the same start-point: half the world’s population has been killed by a horrible epidemic, and the survivors have created a radically different society to prevent this from happening again. Also, the main and secondary characters are women. [...]

By: Writerly Updates « Kaaron Warren

Writerly Updates « Kaaron Warren — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:07:51 +0000

[...] Library’s Harry Markov, guestblogging at The Book Smugglers, has named my novel Walking the Tree his ‘most cherished read of the year’. What a wonderful thing for an author to [...]

By: Excellent Auction « Kaaron Warren

Excellent Auction « Kaaron Warren — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:49:39 +0000

[...] in previous years by the good folk up in Brisbane. It’s a great cause. I donated my novel Walking the Tree, which can be found in the Dark Fantasy, Horror and Historical novels [...]

By: The Baggage Blog Tour, part I: “Hive of Glass” by Kaaron Warren « The Nocturnalist

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:24:28 +0000

[...] by another fellow Canberran and friend Kaaron Warren. Kaaron’s the author of Slights and Walking the Tree for Angry Robot, as well as a great wealth of short stories which have been collected in The [...]

By: Kaaron Warren’s Novel Comes With Free Novella « The World SF News Blog

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:37:24 +0000

[...] » Apex Book of World SF contributor Kaaron Warren’s last novel from Angry Robot Books, Walking the Tree, now comes with a free novella. Here’s the official press [...]

By: News: Angry Robot Announces a New Way of Telling Stories – NextRead

News: Angry Robot Announces a New Way of Telling Stories – NextRead — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:32:45 +0000

[...] Kaaron Warren told us she wanted to re-write her next book Walking the Tree as a 20,000 word novella from the point of view of one of the book’s minor characters, we thought [...]

By: Cover Art & Synopsis | Walking the Tree by Kaaron Warren | A Dribble of Ink

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:09:47 +0000

[...] heard of Walking the Tree (or Kaaron Warren, for that matter), before stumbling across it on the Angry Robot Books website, but damn if that cover didn’t grab my attention right [...]