What's So Great About Ushas?

Lane Haygood · 21 Jul 2008, 20:44 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: lhaygood at gmail.com (Lane Haygood)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:44:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
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And in all fairness, one should as well pick up "Endymion" and "The  
Rise of Endymion" to round out the series, although the first two  
Hyperion Cantos are superior.

But "gory horror novels?"  Really? I could see pseudo-cyberpunk  (the  
first two), homage to Chaucer and Keats, and mystic fantasy (the last  
two), but I don't recall there being a whole lot of gore.  The  
descriptions of the Tree of Pain were not pleasant, but were hardly  
gory, at least as I am imagining "gore."

Lane

On Jul 21, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM, b sharp <bsharporflat at hotmail.com>  
> wrote:
> (sorry not familiar with The Shrike).
>
> Then I suggest you run-don't-walk to your favorite bookseller and  
> get copies of
> Dan Simmons' HYPERION and THE FALL OF HYPERION, two of the finest SF
> novels not by Wolfe in the past twenty years.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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