He's contagious. First there was LysKOM. Then there was Xena, and Babylon5, and Blakes's 7, and Buffy. Now there's Livejournal as well. It's all his fault!
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.
Many thanks for all the titles - I shall look them out, especially the short story collections. I first read his stories about Angharad following her tinker's road into the green in MZB's Sword and Sorceress anthologies, and they're among my favourites in those collections. (I also like Dorothy J Heydt's 'Cynthia' stories in the same collections.) I always had a sense that behind his stories was a complete world that only need to be written about, since he'd already discovered/invented it.
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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.
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Date: 2003-10-27 11:03 am (UTC)