Re: CHAT: Turtledove (was: RE: Nov 11th)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 18, 1999, 17:00 |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, andrew wrote:
> Am 11/18 00:31 And Rosta yscrifef:
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> > One delightful discovery in my recent unchronian investigations
> > was L. Sprague de Camp's _Lest Darkness Fall_, which apparently is
> > a classic of the genre though previously unknown to me. Here I find
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> I take it that you're a Congregationalist then?:) I like the
> theological debate that occurs in the second chapter of _Lest Darkness
> Fall_, my favorite bit. The book was also influential on Turtledove,
> attracting him to historical research and then into speculative writing.
>
I've only two times in my life come across a copy of Lest Darkness
Fall, and never ever heard from someone who had read it too... I
wish I had a decent copy, though, not the old, delapidated, brown
and fragile paperback that's nestling on my shelves. If Turtledove
was influenced by it, I will definately check his works out. I could
do with another writer, I've exhaused my current supply.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org