Yesterday, I finished book four of Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge's Exordium series, The Rifter's Covenant. It doesn't end on as a wham-bang note as the previous one, but I'm even more eager to find out what happens in the next and final volume: not only do I want to see if Our Heroes make it out of their tense situations reasonably intact and heart-whole, but it will be interesting to see how some of the plot threads and characters we've been following will come into play.
Oh, and my Guy Kay in spaaace comment wasn't so far-fetched after all: the series' original editor apparently compared these to Dorothy Dunnett, who was a big influence on Kay. (I should start a sf.written thread on "Lymond homages in sf," really.) Unfortunately, beyond that, I can't think of much else to say today; been rather ill all weekend and my brain is fried. (Boy, I really hope I feel better by tomorrow, or I will have the world's worst first day at work . . . )
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#2 :: Kate wrote on September 9, 2002 at 6:54 PM:
Thanks--I really don't know whether I feel better or not today, since I was so busy I didn't have time to notice. Which I think probably counts as a net plus.
#3 :: Kris Hasson-Jones wrote on September 13, 2002 at 7:49 PM:
Oh, I'd love to see a discussion of Lymond references. I first read the Lymond Chronicles when I was ill for a week back in 1980 (during the summer after I started college). I've reread them at least 3 times since. I would like an annotated version so I could finally get *all* the references.
#4 :: Kate wrote on September 14, 2002 at 10:38 AM:
Well, there's a Dunnett Companion or some such, which includes translations (joy!), quote-capping, etc. *goes to Amazon Light* Actually, there's two, since the first was published before the Niccolo books were done.
Okay, I'll head to sf.written and start a thread, though it's been a while since I read Dunnett and I'll probably get some of it wrong. Though that's the laziest way to get people to respond to you...
#5 :: Kate wrote on September 14, 2002 at 9:59 PM:
Here's the promised thread, on Google.
#6 :: Kris Hasson-Jones wrote on September 15, 2002 at 10:38 PM:
Thanks! I'll sub that group and check it out.
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I hope you feel better!