Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA From: BARD@MIT-XX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #243 Message-ID: <2471@topaz.ARPA> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 11:52:43 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2471 Posted: Tue Jul 2 11:52:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 06:08:33 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25 From: Bard Bloom> Tanith Lee is a British writer who leans to sword/sorcery and > fantasy (excellent writing, I might add.) However, about a year > ago, I acquired a copy of her book THE SILVER METAL LOVER, and loved > it. I have seen lists of titles by her that might be in the same > genre (ie, not s/s); in particular, DON'T BITE THE SUN, and SAPPHIRE > WINE. I haven't been able to find them! Has anyone read them? How > were they? They were very good. (I can't help you find them; you certainly can't have _my_ copies.) The ``** spoiler warning **'' key on this terminal is broken, so I can't describe the plot. (The title of the second is _Drinking_Sapphire_Wine_, which may make it a bit easier to find.) It's about as much science fiction as _The_Silver_Metal_Lover_, or as her other sf books (_Sabella_, _Day_By_Night_ (?), _Electric_Forest_, and perhaps others I can't remember): light on the science (i.e., extremely advanced science, equivalent to domestic magic, but all in the background), heavy on things that certain of the flamers here would approve of: writing style, characterization, and so on. All of them are worth reading. Pax VAXque vobsicum Bard -------