Angelus ,'Damage'
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."
I haven't been able to find out what the estate of Doyle's argument was
They basically said that the character, etc., wasn't finished until all the stories were written -- so Holmes should remain under copyright protection until all the stories entered the public domain. (I think the last 10 years of stories are still under copyright protection, so you can't use any elements unique to those stories.)
I can't say enough about Katha Pollitt's new book, though I know that in general, we don't talk about political books on Lit Buff, but it's really good.
So, somewhere (I honestly don't recall where), I happened upon the name "Samuel Delany" as a Sci-Fi author worth reading. I'm now 18% into Trouble on Triton. I think I like it. I'm not entirely sure. Anyone read any of his stuff?
Chip Delaney is one of the sf greats -- winner of Hugos and Nebulas and named an SFWA Grand Master. He was the first major African-American and probably the first openly gay SF writer. His work, particularly his work in the '70s, was enormously influential.
I haven't read him in years. I should remedy that. I am, however, one of the people who could not finish Dhalgren.
Dhalgren is on hold for me once it gets e-turned-in.
I really dug Babel-17, and Empire Star was pretty good, but he's pretty trippy.
I really loved Delaney's novel Stars In My Pocket, Like Grains of Sand [link]
One section in particular where he goes over all the imagined literature of that culture's civilization is dazzling and fascinating.
Always loved Delaney. If you have not read him before a good way to get get a taste "Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones" , his Hugo winning short story which was so extensively collected you ought to be able to find it in some omnibus or other at your local library.
Delaney was one of my Dad's favorite authors. I've been meaning to check his work out myself.