I've made arrangements to acquire a copy of Daughter of Hounds (and the reissued Threshold), but the bookshop has yet to get back to me with a confirmation of my order.
In the last few days, I finally got to read "Riding the White Bull," and it's a fantastic story. While I don't think I've ever read anything by you that was in the least bit disappointing, it's your SF work that most interests me these days.
That in no way takes away from my thrill at having finally received my copy of Alabaster. I was worried that they would run out, even of the trade hardcover, but I'm absolutely stoked that I managed to snag a limited edition.
Questions:
First, where does "Highway 97" fit in the Dancy chronology? Am I right in assuming that it's the latest story you wrote about her?
Second, I may have missed your entry about this, but what's up with that project about Tales of Pain and Wonder, the one where several of your readers picked out stories to work on? (Mine was "Estate.")
Third, to go back to your SF, any news on the ebook of The
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First, where does "Highway 97" fit in the Dancy chronology? Am I right in assuming that it's the latest story you wrote about her?
"Highway 97" occurs immediately before "Bainbridge," by only a few hours.
Second, I may have missed your entry about this, but what's up with that project about Tales of Pain and Wonder, the one where several of your readers picked out stories to work on? (Mine was "Estate.")
It's on hold, pending the end of the March.
Third, to go back to your SF, any news on the ebook of The Dry Salvages?
I'm still trying to find a block of time when I can immerse myself in Dancy's world, and I think I'll read the stories in chronological order. (Alternate TOCs was a great idea, by the way.)
And oh, cf. the comment below, a collection of your SF? I think I missed that bit of news, too!
If we are to take literally everything that happens, we need to think of ourselves as inhabiting another kind of story. It is a tale of wrongness-the sort of wrongness that, in a novel of the fantastic, augurs and manifests an amnesia about the true nature of the world. Franklin and his officers-even the supple-minded Crozier at the start of things, before he begins to learn the score-are not simply white men who don't get the point, though it is blindingly clear that their contemptous and culture-bound refusal to adopt any of the techniques the Inuit use to survive in the far North constitutes a fatal failure to get a very practical point, that you cannot make the world do your bidding by bullying it. But that's not the whole of it. What the white men of The Terror also manifest is another, far more terrible and terminal fact, a 21st-century fact,
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In the last few days, I finally got to read "Riding the White Bull," and it's a fantastic story. While I don't think I've ever read anything by you that was in the least bit disappointing, it's your SF work that most interests me these days.
That in no way takes away from my thrill at having finally received my copy of Alabaster. I was worried that they would run out, even of the trade hardcover, but I'm absolutely stoked that I managed to snag a limited edition.
Questions:
First, where does "Highway 97" fit in the Dancy chronology? Am I right in assuming that it's the latest story you wrote about her?
Second, I may have missed your entry about this, but what's up with that project about Tales of Pain and Wonder, the one where several of your readers picked out stories to work on? (Mine was "Estate.")
Third, to go back to your SF, any news on the ebook of The ( ... )
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"Highway 97" occurs immediately before "Bainbridge," by only a few hours.
Second, I may have missed your entry about this, but what's up with that project about Tales of Pain and Wonder, the one where several of your readers picked out stories to work on? (Mine was "Estate.")
It's on hold, pending the end of the March.
Third, to go back to your SF, any news on the ebook of The Dry Salvages?
Also on hold pending the end of the March.
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I'm still trying to find a block of time when I can immerse myself in Dancy's world, and I think I'll read the stories in chronological order. (Alternate TOCs was a great idea, by the way.)
And oh, cf. the comment below, a collection of your SF? I think I missed that bit of news, too!
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You might be interested in John Clute's review:
If we are to take literally everything that happens, we need to think of ourselves as inhabiting another kind of story. It is a tale of wrongness-the sort of wrongness that, in a novel of the fantastic, augurs and manifests an amnesia about the true nature of the world. Franklin and his officers-even the supple-minded Crozier at the start of things, before he begins to learn the score-are not simply white men who don't get the point, though it is blindingly clear that their contemptous and culture-bound refusal to adopt any of the techniques the Inuit use to survive in the far North constitutes a fatal failure to get a very practical point, that you cannot make the world do your bidding by bullying it. But that's not the whole of it. What the white men of The Terror also manifest is another, far more terrible and terminal fact, a 21st-century fact, ( ... )
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