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Re: CHAT: Turtledove (was: RE: Nov 11th)

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Thursday, November 18, 1999, 6:12
Am 11/18 00:31  And Rosta yscrifef:


> 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
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. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz "Death is an evil; the gods have so judged it; had it been good, they would die." - Sappho of Lesbos.