John Varley! "Titan"! Oh, man, did I adore that book, and I generally read very little scifi. But he was so visual, and I loved his women characters.
Jilli, I am with you. I'm starting a vampire book (working title is "The Burden of Memory") as soon as I'm done with "Matty Groves" and the only thing anomoly will be that they've "lived" long enough to know that it's safer to leave their dinner alive and a bit fuddled as to what actually happened than it is to invoke hunts and searches by being too greedy.
I'm starting a vampire book (working title is "The Burden of Memory")
Oooh! Um, er ... need a beta reader?
need a beta reader?
Yes please. I was going to ask you about it next week; BTW (off topic for a moment), I'll be picking you up at the airport, and I'm thinking I will rub up a chicken, with citrus olive oil, crushed garlic and herbs, and roast it for dinner.
Oh, SO not fair. Jilli gets to read AND eat citrus herbed chicken. At Deb's. Curse this right-coastedness.
Bev, we'll see about sneaking you out here when Nilly's out here too. I foresee a raucous music-laden jamboree, er, I mean, a dignified literary cocktail party.
Mmmm.... citrus herb chicken with garlic. IJS.
Also, the whole dead thing? Very important. (re Jilli's vampire rant.)
Also, the whole dead thing? Very important. (re Jilli's vampire rant.)
Also important re: citrus herb chicken.
Totally (re the vampires). Mine are certainly going to be dead (or formerly dead, now undead); the woman was one of the last victims of Elizabeth Bathory's pet henchwoman, and she herself turned her male companion in a grubby alley near the Bastille during the Terror.
They can NOT go out in sunlight. They don't eat cheeseburgers. They aren't cute. They also aren't stupid, because I have this idea that writers who offer up creatures who have successfully survived for the equivalent of five human lifetimes and are portrayed as dimwits? OUght to be nibbled to death by ducks.
edit: oh, and the chicken? Dead first, as well. Much easier to pluck that way.
double-edit: GINGER! Thank you for an intelligent, well-thought out Amazon review!
You're welcome. I meant to do it long ago. At least at this point I could point people at the next one.