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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Woman Who Loved The Moon (1984)di Elizabeth A. Lynn
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A mixed collection this, some being fantasy, some SF, and one or two supernatural tales. The first story I found rather heavy going and slow, but there are some better ones such as 'Jubilee's Story' (which I had already read in Virginia Kidd's Millennial Women anthology) and 'The Island'. Entertaining, but not a keeper for me. ( ) Lynn is not a well-known name on this side of the Atlantic – she doesn’t appear to have been published in the UK since the late 1970s. Not that she appears to have written much since then – pretty much nothing between 1990 and a new fantasy novel in 2004, and nothing since. Which is a shame, as there are worst writers with much healthier careers. But then fantasy has never been about the writing, which is why so many bad writers have proven so successful in the genre. As fnatasy collections go, this is a perfectly respectable one, with, as is typical, a couple of sf stories, such as ‘The Man Who Was Pregnant’. Each story has a brief introduction, and I admit I like author’s notes in collections. Lynn never made the big time, which seems unfair given how polished the stories in this collection are. But perhaps the fact I can remember little of them a few weeks after reading the book explains why she never made it a big. A good writer, but not, it seems, of especially memorable stories. A collection of fantasy, science fiction, and mystery stories by World Fantasy Award Winner Elizabeth A. Lynn. As with most anthologies, there are better and worse stories, but there's some memorable imagery in almost all of them. I enjoyed the first story, the fantasy Wizard's Domain, the best, but The Gods of Reorth is also good. The title story was the winner of the 1980 World Fantasy Award. Out of print, but well worth tracking down. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiHeyne Science Fiction & Fantasy (06/4116) Premi e riconoscimenti
Elizabeth A. Lynn stands as a groundbreaking author of fantasy and science fiction. Her stories weave richly drawn characters and complex scenes of daily life into the intricate tapestry of speculative fiction. But beyond her technical skill, Lynn has changed the landscape of fantasy writing as one of the first authors to incorporate themes of gender and gay relationships into her work. Importantly, these themes are not part of the fantastic story line but simply of the unremarkable, normal relationships around which the fantasy occurs. This collection of Lynn's early short stories serves as a wonderful introduction to her influential work. Soaring emotions, eloquent prose, and fully realized worlds are truly a joy to become lost within. That explains why the namesake short story "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" won Lynn one of her two World Fantasy Awards. With The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories, readers will delight in an author whose work George R. R. Martin has described as "the sort of fantasy we don't see enough of: lyrical and literate, and a treat from the first page to the last." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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