Cherryh is really good with aliens, making them actually alien and not just humans in costume. Chanur and Foreigner are my favorites of hers.
Wesley: All right. I'm going to let you all in on something you may have trouble comprehending. I assure you however-- Gunn: Vampires are real. Wesley: I was telling!
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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."
-t - Mar 10, 2021 7:13:28 am PST #26510 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Toddson - Mar 10, 2021 11:26:37 am PST #26511 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I saw that the author of "The Phantom Tollbooth" has died. I think it came along when I was too old to be part of the target audience, but I saw that he'd died.
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2021 11:29:59 am PST #26512 of 28404
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
No one is too old for The Phantom Tollbooth!
Dana - Mar 10, 2021 11:34:18 am PST #26513 of 28404
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
What Steph said.
Toddson - Mar 10, 2021 11:41:00 am PST #26514 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I wasn't too old - I think I actually read it at one point - but I was a good deal older than its target audience when it came out. I missed a fair number of iconic pop culture things.
-t - Mar 10, 2021 5:29:44 pm PST #26515 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, I decided to expand my Golden Age of Detective Fiction education and read some Margery Allingham. Started with the first Campion book, The Crime at Black Dudley, and I don't think it's for me, although I can well imagine Marsh reading it and deciding to write A Man Lay Dead. Is anyone here a fan, are later books maybe different?
Consuela - Mar 10, 2021 6:47:22 pm PST #26516 of 28404
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The last Chanur novel is more of a TNG-type spinoff than a direct sequel, although it deals with a lot of the same issues. It's just that the Chanur of the title is Hilfy, rather than her aunt Pyanfar. And I like Hilfy, but Pyanfar is totally badass.
-t - Mar 10, 2021 8:47:02 pm PST #26517 of 28404
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Hm. Not completely certain I did read that.
Beverly - Mar 10, 2021 11:33:54 pm PST #26518 of 28404
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Thirding the Chanur books. All Cherryh's scifi is at least engaging--my favorite being a little morsel titled Merchanter's Luck--has a Firefly ring to it.
And if you're a fantasy fan, Cherryh's got you covered there, too--from Gates of Ivrel and Faded Sun trilogy through The Tree of Swords and Jewels on to her Russian folk tales: Rusalka, Chernovog, et al.
Toddson - Mar 11, 2021 5:43:20 am PST #26519 of 28404
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I enjoyed the Pride of Chanur series - had them all at one point. The Faded Sun trilogy was good, as were most of the others I remember reading.
I liked Margery Allingham; I think her best was Tiger in the Smoke. You might try Josephine Tey as well - her best known book is The Daughter of Time, which isn't a traditional mystery.