Sirens: The Underground Influence of Georgette Heyer

[gwyneira]

I had a hard time keeping up, so forgive any errors! This was a great, energetic panel, and I was really glad I happened to have brought The Masqueraders with me so that I could immediately start rereading it.

Comments

[sartorias]

Thank you for typing it up!

[rachelmanija]

Thanks for the write-up! I'm still in Portland. My flight got delayed by five hours.

[gwyneira]

Oh, that sucks! I hope you have lots of books.

[estara]

Interesting to see the impression of the various novels and that some of my favourites weren't mentioned at all. Thanks for the write-up ^^

[gwyneira]

Which are your favorites? I think they mentioned most of mine except for The Unknown Ajax.

[mme_hardy]

That sounds wonderful. I wish virtual-me had been there!

Another Heyer-descended pair of books is Ankaret Wells's Respite series The Maker's Mask and The Hawkwood War: the romantic object is very attractively (to me, anyway) Avon, although the protagonist is nothing at all out of Heyer. There are dialogue echoes; it's not just characterization. Unlike Heyer, Wells acknowledges that a forty-something lover has aches and pains and is conscious of aging.

I loved the Panshin so much I can't bear to reread them to see if the Suck Fairy has been by. The Universal Pantograph is one of the first books I'd seek out in the Library of Babel.

[gwyneira]

Huh, I didn't think of Heyer while I was reading the Wells books -- will have to go back and reread with that in mind!

Ellen Kushner was so enthusiastic about the Panshin books that I think practically the whole audience wrote them down to seek out. His web site has an ebook omnibus which I will probably check out.

[thistleingrey]

Looks like the Panshin books are collected as New Celebrations, except for the part where one cannot order the ebook hence anymore. It turns up on Amazon and B&N, at minimum--I didn't check everywhere.

[gwyneira]

Oh, excellent, I hadn't clicked through that deep on his site yet. I do like to get ebooks from Amazon so I can sample them.

[oracne]

Thank you so much for the writeup!!!