I haven't actually read Schone yet just about her work, so let me know what you think OK?
Hamilton's Anita Blake is not quite as popular as Buffy but a lot of people seem to like both. Her series has changed quite a bit since the first book Guilty Pleasures and you'll sometimes find the same reaction to that as goes on in the Buffyverse; but I like her. I've also read her interviews and she lets the story write through her, so that explains the shift to me but as people say it's all your POV. There too people have developed epectations about who the character will end up with or how she will grow and it's difficult I think for them to shift gears when the character goes a different direction. Anita's personal concern about the thin line that separates man and monster and where she is going with it, as her character very strongly contains both elements, is a main draw for me but there are other echoes with BTVS too. Hamilton built further on some themes that Joss only alluded to and has a different outlook on many issues, so there is a resonance but it's not a copycat. I could go on but I tend to instill the glazed eye effect, so I'll pause here.
Kushner is simply in a class by herself and only seems to produce about one book a decade although that might just be me the greedy reader. Swordspoint should be read before Fall if you can, since it's set in the same world but 40 years earlier. Fall grew out of a conversation between her and Delia Sherman (another good author) and they wrote it together each writing different characters. I'm hoping that they continue. The book left me hungy for another.
Swordspoint was either recently reissued or is soon to be and I can't say enough good things about it. With all I've read, I consider it the only perfect book to come into my hands. Which is not to say that you'll like it! But definitely worth a look if you come across it.
And raspberries! Yes. Like the roses they just like my yard. Plants are very funny this way. I try to grow what likes to be here; it makes the gardening fun not work. I thought about pulling them out at one point for the space but there's something about walking outside and picking breakfast off the bush that I simply couldn't give up. Have to scoot now, I've been playing too much online and need to get some work done before bed.
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Sat, Jul. 19th, 2003 07:02 pm (UTC)Hamilton's Anita Blake is not quite as popular as Buffy but a lot of people seem to like both. Her series has changed quite a bit since the first book Guilty Pleasures and you'll sometimes find the same reaction to that as goes on in the Buffyverse; but I like her. I've also read her interviews and she lets the story write through her, so that explains the shift to me but as people say it's all your POV. There too people have developed epectations about who the character will end up with or how she will grow and it's difficult I think for them to shift gears when the character goes a different direction. Anita's personal concern about the thin line that separates man and monster and where she is going with it, as her character very strongly contains both elements, is a main draw for me but there are other echoes with BTVS too. Hamilton built further on some themes that Joss only alluded to and has a different outlook on many issues, so there is a resonance but it's not a copycat. I could go on but I tend to instill the glazed eye effect, so I'll pause here.
Kushner is simply in a class by herself and only seems to produce about one book a decade although that might just be me the greedy reader. Swordspoint should be read before Fall if you can, since it's set in the same world but 40 years earlier. Fall grew out of a conversation between her and Delia Sherman (another good author) and they wrote it together each writing different characters. I'm hoping that they continue. The book left me hungy for another.
Swordspoint was either recently reissued or is soon to be and I can't say enough good things about it. With all I've read, I consider it the only perfect book to come into my hands. Which is not to say that you'll like it! But definitely worth a look if you come across it.
And raspberries! Yes. Like the roses they just like my yard. Plants are very funny this way. I try to grow what likes to be here; it makes the gardening fun not work. I thought about pulling them out at one point for the space but there's something about walking outside and picking breakfast off the bush that I simply couldn't give up. Have to scoot now, I've been playing too much online and need to get some work done before bed.
And thanks so much for all the good conversation!