[OT] Crowley, _The Translator_

Kevin J. Maroney · 17 Apr 2001, 08:40 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at ungames.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: [OT] Crowley, _The Translator_
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:40:28
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At 11:05 PM 4/16/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Before it appears, there'll be a standalone novel, already completed,
>entitled THE TRANSLATORS.  There are conflicting reports on rasfw as to its
>nature: Kevin Maroney believes it's "a science fiction novel with angels as
>major characters" ... but another
>poster quotes LOCUS as saying it's a mainstream novel.

I misremembered what I had read. Crowley says in his interview with Alice
Turner that it is=20

  a book with very different ambitions (though it too deals with the powers
  and great angels). It's called _The Translator_ and will be out in about
  a year. It's a love story about poets and poetry, and it takes place at
  a Midwestern university at the time of the Cuban missle crisis. ...
  [It is] only marginally science fiction.=20

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