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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Boudewijn Rempt
> Sent: 18 November 1999 17:01
> To: Multiple recipients of list CONLANG
> Subject: Re: CHAT: Turtledove (was: RE: Nov 11th)
>
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, andrew wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> 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 |
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