A Good Fantasy Week
I just finished (in about a day) Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys. Excellent stuff -- it starts off closer to gringo magical realism, but it's fantasy by the end of it.
I'm next going to read Patricia McKillip's latest -- Od Magic. I don't know anything about it, but suspect I'll love it.
And on top of that, Amazon just shipped In the Coils of the Snake, which I'm pretty sure is the latest Hollow Kingdom book. The Hollow Kingdom is an excellent novel (which won Mythopeoic, and which I reviewed in a spoilery review for Mythprint), and it's sequels are quite good as well; I'm curious to see how this one comes out.
But Od Magic first. And read Anansi Boys -- it's exellent; wonderful and warm and solid (and fwiw, much, well, -nicer- than American Gods).
I'm next going to read Patricia McKillip's latest -- Od Magic. I don't know anything about it, but suspect I'll love it.
And on top of that, Amazon just shipped In the Coils of the Snake, which I'm pretty sure is the latest Hollow Kingdom book. The Hollow Kingdom is an excellent novel (which won Mythopeoic, and which I reviewed in a spoilery review for Mythprint), and it's sequels are quite good as well; I'm curious to see how this one comes out.
But Od Magic first. And read Anansi Boys -- it's exellent; wonderful and warm and solid (and fwiw, much, well, -nicer- than American Gods).
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Od Magic is turning out to be quite good so far; reminding me of why I love McKillip's stuff and wonder how hard it is to create an RPG system designed to do the thing she does with magic.
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Have we met?
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Not honestly sure; I mostly make it to WisCon, Chattacon and the original [Iowa] ICON, plus WorldCon when I can afford it.
You're a moderately well-known name in fandom. When I saw you had a lj, and that we had a number of friends in common, I figured I'd f-list you, since this is where a lot of fannish conversation goes on nowadays.
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Welcome!
(and yeah; lj gives good fanac; enough that I no longer feel guilty for not doing fanzines aside from my A&E zine).
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All places begining with W are the same anyways. :)
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Shouldn't you know this stuff, given?
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I am no longer working at a bookstore. Sad in it's own way (bye-bye employee discount) but good to be out of a dead-end job with no benefits.