Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!stever From: stever@cit-vlsi Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Tanith Lee Message-ID: <2617@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 03:15:13 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2617 Posted: Tue Jul 9 03:15:13 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:13:17 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 29 From: stever@cit-vlsi (Steve Rabin ) "Don't Bite the Sun" and its sequel "Drinking Sapphire Wine" form the best science fiction love story I've ever read. Actually this is also the only science fiction love story I've read. Lee also has a gothic SF novel - "Lycanthia". It is a sequel to the farcical "Anna Medea" in her latest anthology, "The Gorgon". My reaction to "The Gorgon" was mixed. This collection has two of Lee's best short stories (Meow & Sirriamnis), but it also has many stories which I found rather slow and boring, and several with a bad pun for a title. Also, I had read Sirriamnis before, in "Unsilent Night". Of all Tanith Lee's books, my favorite is "To Kill the Dead", which happens to be a ghost story. One image that blows me away is the brash male hero/villain/thief at the door with the roto-rooter/well rope/spell and the withdrawn female protagonist behind the window shades hoping he will go away soon. Some of these books are very sexually emotive. Lee also plays games with my concept of "parent". -s