Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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'm on my never-ending quest for vampire novels that aren't dreadful.
I recommend Christopher Pike's The Last Vampire series. It's young-adult, so you might find some of it dreadful, but it integrates vampire mythology with Hindu mythology, which is just fucking cool.
Jilli, have you read Jon Merz's vampire series? They're not dreadful. They aren't particularly spooky or supernatural, either, sort of vampires with a mafia feel.
I just read Laura Kinsale's newest. It's got to be the best written porn I've ever encountered. The plot was pretty good too.
Deena--insent.
Jilli, have you read Jon Merz's vampire series? They're not dreadful. They aren't particularly spooky or supernatural, either, sort of vampires with a mafia feel.
Hmm? I haven't read them. I'll try and track them down.
Katerian Bee! I'm finally 2/3 into Red Thunder and really liking it, in all its "hey kids, let's build a rocket and go to Mars," ways. Thanks!
In Her Shoes is as much fun as Bet Me IMHO, complete with friends, jobs, elders & other normal things.
Has Blood Sucking Fiends ever come up? Christopher Moore, so, kind of a Tom Robbinesque comedic take on vampires in San Francisco, complete with hilarious Marina Safeway midnight frozen turkey bowling. Hmm, published in 1996, I wonder if he was the first to write about frozen turkey bowling.
I saw an interesting vampire collection at the used store yesterday, Vampire Sextette (I think). Had stories by Nancy Collins, Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Brian Stableford and two others.
I saw an interesting vampire collection at the used store yesterday, Vampire Sextette (I think). Had stories by Nancy Collins, Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Brian Stableford and two others.
It's a pretty decent collection. If nothing else, it's worth it for the Kim Newman novella, which does a nice bit of satire on Buffy. The Tanith Lee story is good, the Nancy Collins one is okay (if a bit ... similar to everthing else she's written with that character), and I don't really remember anything about the other authors.
Let's see....
Hec, same edition I have. Of course I adore the cover.
These Old Shades
YES! Leonie and Avon. Have you read Devil's Cub? About their son Dominic, Marquis of Vidal? And as has been pointed out above, the Worths (from Regency Buck) and the Avons (in the person(s) of Dominic's granddaughter, Barbara Alastair Childe) intertwine in An Infamous Army, yet another reason to love it.
Have you read Devil's Cub? About their son Dominic, Marquis of Vidal?
Nope. I need to track that one down.