Andre Norton is in terrible health and is selling High Hallack.
Buffy: Synchronized slaying. Faith: New Olympic category?
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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
sfmarty - Jun 23, 2004 6:22:58 pm PDT #719 of 10001
Who? moi??
Beverly - Jun 23, 2004 7:31:39 pm PDT #720 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
My favorite of the Witch World novels is Year of the Unicorn, primarily because it's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Although I'm very fond of The Crystal Gryphon as well.
And The Jargoon Pard.
Nodding to everything in 'suela's post.
Marta, I love your tagline. What am I saying, I live your tagline. Now, what do you mean, selling High Hallack? I had no idea Norton could still be living. I thought someone had bought the rights from her estate and was publishing under her name.
Consuela - Jun 23, 2004 8:51:35 pm PDT #721 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Andre Norton is in terrible health and is selling High Hallack
Oh, that's terribly sad. She's such an important part of my growing up. The first novel I remember reading is The Stars are Ours. But you can't say she didn't have an impact, and I'm very happy she got a Grand Master award.
sfmarty - Jun 24, 2004 3:04:23 am PDT #722 of 10001
Who? moi??
She is elderly, but still around. A lot of her stuff is being written in collaboration right now, in fact has been for some time.
High Hallack was going to be a place where writers could go and read other peoples work, or write, or just decompress. I don't know if that part ever happened. I am not a writer and lost touch. If you really want to know more, I could ask.
Beverly - Jun 24, 2004 7:05:34 am PDT #723 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I would be interested in knowing. "Selling High Hallack" is such a mournful statement, and a shock in a way. I wondered if she had named her home that, or was selling the rights to the High Hallack stories, or the use of the name, or what.
sfmarty - Jun 24, 2004 7:14:43 am PDT #724 of 10001
Who? moi??
She named her home that.
Beverly - Jun 24, 2004 8:21:14 am PDT #725 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
She named her home that.
Oh, I see. Thank you for clearing that up for me. That is sad. She's always been a writer I've loved, who had a great influence on my expectations for storytelling, since I read a lot of her work in my teens and early 20s.
Typo Boy - Jun 24, 2004 11:29:01 am PDT #726 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The funny thing about Heinlien is that he is about the only "hard" SF writer I really like. I like cool gadgets, but I enjoy stories about people more than I do about gadgets. And for all his flaws, Heinlein (to me) wrote mainly about (male admittedly) people. Mike in Moon came in part (I believe) out Heinleins inability to conveive of a really cool gadget that did not in fact turn out to be a person. I don't think the science was ever the point of the story for Heinlein. For this I could ignore the repulsive politics, and the reduction of women to some weird private fantasy of his. His books were about people, and society, and a view of the universe - the gadgets were just plot devices.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 24, 2004 12:51:54 pm PDT #727 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Gar, have you ever read Charles Sheffield's collections of short fiction? Very hard science-y, but I think he does (well, did, he died in 2002) a good job of exploring characterization as well. Hidden Variables was my first introduction to him, and I also liked The MacAndrew Chronicles.
Daisy Jane - Jun 24, 2004 12:56:38 pm PDT #728 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
What means "hard" SF writer? Does Bradbury count? Atwood? Also is "The Children of Men" SF? I tend to think it is, but maybe there's some other category for apocolyptic stuff. What about Adams? I'm assuming he doesn't count because his is satire set in SFland- but then, should he not be counted as SF just because he's funny? Parts of The Martian Chronicals struck me funny too.