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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 19:10:15 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
An ultraquick note to bring others up to speed on THE BLACK GRAIL.
This is a book firmly in the tradition of THE DYING EARTH. It was published in 1986, but is really an expansion of an earlier novel, SORCERER'S WORLD (published 1970).
Confession time: despite owning copies of The White Abacus and The Sea's Furthest End, the only Damien Broderick book I've read is
Sorcerer's World. Which I suspect wouldn't be the book Damien would choose as his main representative to the world, though it's not bad, in the Vancean Dying Earth tradition. Though replete with cutesy names which spelled backward are jokes.
So which should I read next, Damien? TWA or TSFE? Though to be sure, I also just picked up Door Number Three, so I have lots of listmember work to anticipate. <g>
Rich Horton | rrhorton at concentric.net
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Halfway Human and The Star Fraction and Deepdrive.)