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From: stever@cit-vlsi
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Subject: Tanith Lee
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Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 03:15:13 EDT
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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at the door with the roto-rooter/well rope/spell and the withdrawn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