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marycrawford) wrote2004-06-17 10:45 pm
marycrawford) wrote2004-06-17 10:45 pm
Things to do. People to damage.
Right, that's it. If we have another yuletide challenge this year, I'm going to ask not only for Miles/Bel, but also for Croup/Vandemar.
Blame Eleanor.
In slightly related news, SciFi.Com is republishing some of R.A. Lafferty's classic short stories online. I love Lafferty; I don't think his style and content are comparable to anything else in the world, and I fumble for a better description. The shaggiest, scaliest dog tales ever told?
I've found a blog entry about him here that does a somewhat better job of explaining why he's so spellbinding. Or just take Neil Gaiman's word for it: "when Lafferty was writing he was undoubtedly the finest writer of whatever it was that he did that ever there was."
Some story links:
Slow Tuesday Night is completely unbelievable, but no less fun for that.
One of my favorites, The Transcendent Tigers shows that nobody writes children in SF&F quite the way Lafferty does, either.
Two other favorites, Land of the Great Horses and Narrow Valley, appear to be down right now. Pity; Narrow Valley is one of the few stories that can make me laugh out loud no matter how many times I read it.
Lots of other delights in the archives of SciFi.com, including the feminist classics When It Changed by Joanna Russ and The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree, Jr (which should win some kind of award for best tongue-in-cheek title), and other Hugo/Nebula winners like The Dance of the Changer and the Three by Terry Carr and The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop.
Blame Eleanor.
In slightly related news, SciFi.Com is republishing some of R.A. Lafferty's classic short stories online. I love Lafferty; I don't think his style and content are comparable to anything else in the world, and I fumble for a better description. The shaggiest, scaliest dog tales ever told?
I've found a blog entry about him here that does a somewhat better job of explaining why he's so spellbinding. Or just take Neil Gaiman's word for it: "when Lafferty was writing he was undoubtedly the finest writer of whatever it was that he did that ever there was."
Some story links:
Slow Tuesday Night is completely unbelievable, but no less fun for that.
One of my favorites, The Transcendent Tigers shows that nobody writes children in SF&F quite the way Lafferty does, either.
This was the birthday of Carnadine Thompson. She was seven years old. Thereby she left her childhood behind her, and came into the fullness of her powers.
Two other favorites, Land of the Great Horses and Narrow Valley, appear to be down right now. Pity; Narrow Valley is one of the few stories that can make me laugh out loud no matter how many times I read it.
Lots of other delights in the archives of SciFi.com, including the feminist classics When It Changed by Joanna Russ and The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree, Jr (which should win some kind of award for best tongue-in-cheek title), and other Hugo/Nebula winners like The Dance of the Changer and the Three by Terry Carr and The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop.