Among Amazon's Cyber Monday sales are special Kindle deals on what looks like Barbara Hambly's entire fantasy catalog.
And also Octavia Butler.
Everyone's getting spanked but me.
Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Nov 26, 2012 8:11:32 am PST #20119 of 28344
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Steph L. - Nov 26, 2012 8:13:56 am PST #20120 of 28344
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
A lot of Dorothy Sayers too, IIRC.
-t - Nov 26, 2012 8:18:04 am PST #20121 of 28344
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Where's a good place to start with Octavia Butler? I've never read her, and I should fix that.
Connie Neil - Nov 26, 2012 9:29:45 am PST #20122 of 28344
brillig
Crap, I'm utterly broke and I don't have a Kindle.
Kate P. - Nov 26, 2012 10:09:22 am PST #20123 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
-t, I've read both Parable of the Sower and Kindred, and they're both excellent (and very different from each other).
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2012 10:23:10 am PST #20124 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Kindred is a great book, but it stands on its own. Apart from Fledgling (which I do not recommend--I found it skeevy and I can't help but wonder if that's the final version, or she had more to do before she died (doubtlessly that's all wishful thinking, because I love all the rest of her stuff, and I hate this, and I just want something not-her to blame)) the rest of her works take place in 2 (3?) shared universes.
- Patternist: Patternmaster, Mind of my Mind, Survivor, Wild Seed, Clay's Ark
- Parable: Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents
- Xenogenesis (so, 3, then): Dawn, Adulthood Rites, Imago
I think I liked Xenogenesis the most, but they're all good--pick any start of a series.
Kate P. - Nov 26, 2012 10:30:30 am PST #20125 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, there's also Bloodchild, a story collection. I remember loving that one too.
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2012 10:36:30 am PST #20126 of 28344
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes--sorry. I was in novel mode. Are all her stories in Bloodchild?
Kate P. - Nov 26, 2012 10:40:57 am PST #20127 of 28344
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I don't know. It's the only story collection of hers that I'm aware of, but I have no idea if she has other stories floating around.
hippocampus - Nov 26, 2012 11:02:52 am PST #20128 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
"The Evening, The Morning, and the Night" isn't in Bloodchild. It's in the Best of Women's Fantasy and Science Fiction and a few other anthos. Don't know if it's collected.