Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2009-06-11 08:35:00
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Recent Tor.com posts
Dunsany's short fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness, Votan and Not For All the Gold in Ireland by John James.

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[info]rozk
2009-06-11 12:58 pm UTC (link)
John James wrote a few more books than this, you'll be glad to know, though these two and Men Went to Cattraeth are probably his best. There's Bridge of Sand which I remember - I haven't seen a copy for a while - as being a rather darker book about the Roman Empire, and two sardonic novels set in the late C17, Seventeen of Leyden which has an idiot Stuart-supporting protagonist wandering round the Caribbean trying to retrieve a bunch of schoolgirls enslaved by Judge Jeffries in a moment of over-enthusiasm, and Lords of Loone about which I remember less than nothing except that I liked it...

I really must re-read him.

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[info]papersky
2009-06-11 02:45 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, I had no idea!

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[info]wolfinthewood
2009-06-12 05:31 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for these pointers. I greatly enjoy your posts on Tor, and wouldn't want to miss any of them. However, I have been thinking about removing the Tor blog feed from my friends list, since it is swamping me with more and more long posts on stuff I am not interested in. (I hate to point the finger, but the endless chapter-by-chapter synopses of Robert Jordan's books are notably tedious to me and I am fed up with scrolling past them all the time.)

May I rely on you always posting links to your Tor posts on your LiveJournal? It would be a great service.

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[info]papersky
2009-06-12 06:32 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I will. Someone else couldn't get the feed working, so I said I'd keep posting links.

There's a lot of stuff on Tor.com that I don't read -- anything about TV for a start -- but there are some terrific essays by other people. Check out Robert Charles Wilson's piece this morning for example.

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[info]muuranker
2009-06-15 08:18 pm UTC (link)
I'm pleased you are publicising John James. Thanks also to rozk for the 17th century stuff, which I've not read (yet).

I wonder if he also wrote Paladins, The: Social History of the RAF Up to World War II or Mention my name in Atlantis or Talleyman?

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