Alice Poon 潘慧嫻
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Friday, July 4, 2025

Book Review - Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber

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    This was a reread for me after several decades! The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber is Book 3 in the Condor Heroes Trilogy. Currently,...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Book Review - The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years by Chingiz Aitmatov

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  This was an extraordinary read, not only because this was the first novel by a Kyrgyz writer I'd read, but also this was my first enc...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

ACWW's 30th Anniversary Celebration

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    On Sunday May 4, I had the honor and pleasure of joining the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop's 30th anniversary ( + its preside...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

The Earthly Blaze Eligible for Nomination for CSFFA's 2025 Aurora Award for Best Novel

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    I'm pleased to say that The Earthly Blaze (Sword Maiden from the Moon, #2) has been confirmed eligible for nomination for CSFFA...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Book Review - A Deadly Secret by Jin Yong

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    This was the first time I read this short wuxia novel. When I was about halfway through, a thought hit me: "This sounds so familia...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

International Women's Day - Celebration of Tang Sai'er

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  On this International Women's Day, let's celebrate Tang Sai'er's dauntless wuxia spirit and her valiant cause of liberat...
Friday, January 24, 2025

The Sword Maiden Duology are 2024 Indie Ink Awards Finalists!

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    Both The Heavenly Sword (Book 1) and The Earthly Blaze (Book 2) in the Sword Maiden from the Moon duology are FINALISTS in the catego...
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Alice Poon
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alice Poon received a fully bilingual (English and Chinese) education and also learned French in her youth. Since the release of her two historical Chinese novels: The Green Phoenix and Tales of Ming Courtesans, nostalgia for the magical world of wuxia fiction, which she grew up with, has spurred her desire to write in the Chinese fantasy genre. With the passing of the wuxia fiction icon Jin Yong in 2018, she has felt an urge to help to preserve his legacy and to promote this unique genre of Chinese folk literature to a wider global audience. Overall, inspiration for her fiction writing comes from Jin Yong’s wuxia novels, the wuxia/xianxia media, and French and Russian realist classics. She lives in Greater Vancouver, Canada and wishes to indulge herself in putting her imagination on the page.
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