Oz ,'Beneath You'
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."
Robert B. Parker: The early Spenser novels (1979-1989) are excellent. They go downhill after that, plus there's the Susan Silberman factor.
LOVE. You know I have a bunch of those back at my mom's house I have to go over there tonight, maybe I'll grab a few.
There's a writer named C.T. Harris (C.J. Harris? something like that) who's written some Regency-era mysteries. Nowhere near the depth of A Devil in Music, but readable.
C.S Harris, perhaps Toddson? (One of the titles is Why Mermaids Sing)
yes, that's it! thanks!
My favorite Connie Willis is Bellwether
love love love this. I almost recommended it earlier but I didn't know the author's name and I was feeling lazy wrt google. To a small degree the book changed the way I think about the universe.
Flea beat me to Kate Moss; she was marvelous.
I can also recommend PF Chisholm's Elizabethan-era mysteries. Those are quite fun, and rather more substantive, historically, than most historical mysteries. Chisholm is actually Patricia Finney, and she's quite a historian.
The porous line between "literary" fiction that plays with SF and the (much hated descriptor) "transcends the genre" science fiction writers.
Don't know how they missed Ballard on that list, though.
Also, it's terrible. (YMMV of course. I love Willis generally, but that book....ugh...)
Oh, shoot, I was going to ask if it was better written than Doomsday Book because the ideas sounds fascinating but I just loathed Doomsday Book . I can't even remember why exactly now. I wanted it to be so much better because the plot (at least in the beginning) was so intriguing to me. I do remember seriously wanting to throw it across the room by the end.
And I adore Doomsday Book!
Passages just draaaaaaaaaaaaaaged for me. By the time I got to the last page I was still waiting for the book to start.
We're in the Houston airport. our flight's been delayed for two hours. Mysteriously, it's been delayed to the same time as the later flight. Hmmmmmm.