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DisassemblyOfReason: If you enjoyed MZB's "The Incompetent Magician", the short story collection Lythande contains more of the adventures of the mercenary magician's long wanderings through the world.
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Interessant. Nicht alle Geschichten haben mir gefallen, aber es waren einige sehr schöne dabei. Manchmal merkt man allerdings, dass dieses Buch schon von 1983 ist - wenn einem in der Einleitung eine ungewöhnliche Wendung versprochen wird und man diese Art 'ungewöhnliche' Wendung schon dutzende Male in anderen Geschichten gesehen hat. ( )
I got this book ages ago on the strength of it being edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of my favorite authors back when this book was published in 1983. "Greyhaven" is one of the homes that MZB lived in, and "the spiritual home" to a community of writers, friends and family of the author who write speculative fiction. The publisher even grandiosely compared them to the Bloomsbury group of Virginia Woolf. No, just no. A really fine short story is as memorable or more than any novel. I recently reread an anthology of shorts by Isaac Asimov which I hadn't read in decades. I remembered most stories just from their titles, and the rest within paragraphs. These weren't memorable at all, and on reacquaintance a large number struck me as amateurish to undistinguished--the kind of stories I can't see as published professionally had the writers not been connected to a bestselling writer.
"They Come and Go" and "Wrong Number" inspired only a huh??? and many of the stories struck me as weak. In particular Anodea Judith's "Bedtime Story" She also provided the weakest story in the first Sword and Sorceress anthology, otherwise a collection much, much stronger than this anthology. There was only one story I can say I truly enjoyed, Vicki Ann Heydron's "Cat Tale" about a woman transformed into a puma. That was light-hearted and fun with enough vivid details and strong storytelling to really put me into the story. Too many of the other stories struck me as, oh RenFaire, Pagan clap trap, including one that took seriously the efficacy of human sacrifice. Even Marion Zimmer Bradley's own contribution wasn't one I cared much for--her Lythande story titled "The Incompetent Magician" which can also be found in the anthology Lythande collecting stories with that character. Besides MZB, the only names here I think fantasy readers will likely recognize are Randall Garrett (Heydron's husband) and Diana L. Paxson--I admit not a favorite author of mine and I didn't find her contribution, "Kindred of the Wind" very striking. I (mildly) liked Garrett's contribution, "Just Another Vampire Story" which I found aptly named. Just don't see this collection as a keeper. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
To Robyn Elisabeth Cook
In loving memory of our dear and cherished Robert Cook, "our humble obedient Serpent" who did not live to see this anthology in print; as part of the legacy he left.
Et lux eterna luceat eis.
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
What is Greyhaven, and why is it the title of a fantasy anthology? ("Greyhaven: writers at work")
Anakor paused, almost motionless in the eye of the wind. ("Kindred of the Wind" by Diana L. Paxson)
Here comes that bug out of the kitchen. ("They Come and Go" by Joel Hagen)
Katherine Christopher was wakened from a sound sleep by the deep-throated hunting growl of her Siamese cat, Martinique. ("Cat Tale" by Vicki Ann Heydron)
The golden-haired man entered the booth, inserted plastic and dialed. ("Wrong Number" by James Ian Elliot)
The closing of the Salamandra and Rockridge coffeehouses leaves few outlets for local poets and original musicians to present their work. ("The Bardic Revel" by Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Although I had been making jokes about the time warp for years I never really believed in its existence until the night it grabbed me. ("Tell Me a Story" by Elisabeth Waters)
Did you ever meet a drunken vampire? ("Just Another Vampire Story" by Randall Garrett)
Kera flexed her tired shoulders and took a ragged breath. ("Wildwood" by Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
Gellan Greywolf, sometimes called Gellan Harper, wrapped his large musician's hand about the smaller one connected to the street urchin reaching up to the wagon where Gellan sat. ("The Tax Collector" by Phillip Wayne)
Gretch stared pensively into the bubbling murk of the cauldron; thoughts, faces, and events swirled there in an ever-changing tapestry of grey mist. ("The Woodcarver's Son" by Robert A. Cook)
Throughout the length and breadth of the world of the Twin Suns, from the Great Salt Desert in the south to the Ice Mountains in the north, no one seeks out a mercenary-magician unless he wants something; and it's usually trouble. ("The Incompetent Magician" by Marion Zimmer Bradley)
A conjecture: it came from the past. Or: it came from the future. A supposition: it was a bolt shot by a talent great even in chains, shot at a venture because it dared not be shot at a target. ("Cantabile" by Jon DeCles)
Olwen forced herself up once again from her skinned knees. ("Dagger Spring" by Susan Shwartz)
Korvath the Conqueror had built this castle so that a long terrace faced the mist-shrouded hills across the river, the one land he had never conquered and had come to think he never would. ("Lariven" by Patricia Shaw Mathews)
The sea glowed a dark purple lined with white, rolling in from the sky to the small and stony beach in the crashing of one unending breath. ("The Ring" by Caradoc A. Cador)
Father Odin sent forth from the Hall of the Slain that hero who is called Farin among the Einherior, although he has had many another name on Earth. ("The Hand of Tyr" by Paul Edwin Zimmer)
Some people would have you believe that editing an anthology is just a matter of reading the stories that come, buying the ones you like, rejecting the ones you don't, and sending the manuscript off to the printer. Et voilà! ("Epilogue: A Footnote on Story Selection")
Sitaatit
Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Greyhaven is, therefore, a state of mind; and a wonderful place to write. And out of that state of mind came the many stories in this book...and as the oldest, and so far, the most successful in the family, I have the privilege of introducing my writing family.
Marion Zimmer Bradley ("Greyhaven: writers at work")
The best way to be invited is to show up at the Tuesday night meetings in the new Children of Paradise coffeeshop, make yourself visible there, and demonstrate your competence. ("The Bardic Revel" by Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Kera paused a moment, then walked away, to seek the Wildwood and her mother's folk, and the pale blossoms of an ancient apple tree. ("Wildwood" by Adrienne Martine-Barnes)
With a long sigh, Lythande drew the mage-robe about her thin shoulders, made sure the two daggers were secure in their sheaths - for at this hour, in the moonless streets of Old Gandrin there were many dangers, real and magical - and went on her solitary way stepping over the fragments of the broken lute. ("The Incompetent Magician" by Marion Zimmer Bradley)
But after the rejoicing Valkyries had passed, with Farin and with Tyr Warrior laughing in their midst, Warfather joined Heimdall upon Bifrost, gazing with his single, all-seeing eye upon the world where, bound in the hearts of all men, the Grey Wolf watches the dwellings of the gods. ("The Hand of Tyr" by Paul Edwin Zimmer)
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