Book Featuring Cats from my Youth

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Book Featuring Cats from my Youth

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1John_Nash
heinäkuu 13, 2014, 1:26 pm

Ah, those many decades ago... it was the early seventies when I read a book in my school library that has stayed with me forever. Set in a Dystopian future, talking, very human cats had become the apex species. I don't remember the plot, but the action all took place in an abandoned human university, now occupied by the feline inheritors of the Earth.

Ringing any bells?

2anna_in_pdx
heinäkuu 13, 2014, 5:13 pm

3John_Nash
heinäkuu 13, 2014, 8:13 pm

Absolutely! Thank you Anna. You know that feeling when you can't... remember... a word... on the tip... of... your... tongue? You just repealed me from that sensation, which -- for years now -- has come occasionally to haunt me.

I remember first seeing the concrete canyons of the University of East Anglia as a kid, and utterly believing it was where this book was set. I must immediately order a copy, to see if it's as great as I remember it being. Only The Weirdstone of Brisingamen has been, thus far.

Thank you again. Very much appreciated.

4anna_in_pdx
heinäkuu 13, 2014, 10:16 pm

Glad I could help! I have some books that i will just never find... One mass market paperback fantasy about woodworker wizards that I want so badly to read again... Sigh. Hope this book is as good for you as an adult as it was when you were a kid!

5Jarandel
heinäkuu 14, 2014, 12:51 pm

>4 anna_in_pdx: Woodworking & wizards sounds suspiciously like what I remember of The Magic of Recluce.

6anna_in_pdx
heinäkuu 14, 2014, 12:52 pm

5: OMG. It is my turn to feel goofily happy. Thanks!

7LibraryPerilous
heinäkuu 14, 2014, 1:59 pm

Ha! I checked back on this thread in the hopes someone would know anna_in_pdx's lost title. Woodworking wizards, oh my! I've not read any of Modesitt's books; guess I'll start with that one.