Calle says it's true, and he wouldn't lie about something that important...
Charles de Lint - yes, a fantastically good writer, IMNSHO. I've started collecting... I like his Newford books best. There are four collections of short stories, "The Ivory and the Horn", "Moonlight and Vines", "Dreams Underfoot" and one I don't have and don't remember the name of. There are also some more novels; I've bought "The Forests of the Heart" and "Someplace to be Flying". I think I liked the latter best, but it's hard to differentiate between two levels of "marvellous"... I've also got two non-Newfoord books, "Mulengro", which I didn't find as compelling, and "The Riddle of the Wren", which I liked a lot. The latter is a "standard fantasy"; child brought up by father after mothers death, finds a gateway into a strange world and realises that perhaps her parent's weren't who she thought they was. Yes, that's "she" - that's the non-standard bit of it. He often writes from the POV of a female character, and does it quite well, I think. That's one of the things I like about him.
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Date: 2003-10-26 03:15 am (UTC)Charles de Lint - yes, a fantastically good writer, IMNSHO. I've started collecting...
I like his Newford books best. There are four collections of short stories, "The Ivory and the Horn", "Moonlight and Vines", "Dreams Underfoot" and one I don't have and don't remember the name of.
There are also some more novels; I've bought "The Forests of the Heart" and "Someplace to be Flying". I think I liked the latter best, but it's hard to differentiate between two levels of "marvellous"... I've also got two non-Newfoord books, "Mulengro", which I didn't find as compelling, and "The Riddle of the Wren", which I liked a lot. The latter is a "standard fantasy"; child brought up by father after mothers death, finds a gateway into a strange world and realises that perhaps her parent's weren't who she thought they was. Yes, that's "she" - that's the non-standard bit of it.
He often writes from the POV of a female character, and does it quite well, I think. That's one of the things I like about him.