Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) From: chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: _Bridge_of_Birds_ Message-ID: <3692@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 10:52:16 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3692 Posted: Fri Aug 16 10:52:16 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:30:14 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 13 Here's a recommendation for Barry Hughart's _Bridge_of_Birds_. It's almost as good as finding a new Ernest Brama, except that BofB has more supernatural happenings and every other sentence is not an aphorism. (Now, if I could only find copies of my own of _Kai_Lung's_Golden_Hours_ and _Kai_Lung_Unrolls_His_Mat_. Or wait until BofB's sequel is out.) BofB is funny. Oh, and it's a fantasy of a China that never was (which I think is just how the Kai Lung books have been described, too)--I mention it just so those expecting some sort of space opera or evidence of historical accuracy won't be lead astray. "A bad idea can point to the truth, but empty-headedness only leads to empty-headedness or a career in politics." L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa