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

In a message dated 11/18/1999 12:29:27 AM Central Standard Time,
hobbit@MAIL.EARTHLIGHT.CO.NZ writes:

>
>  > 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.
>
     Any book featuring both Vulgar Latin and Gothic dialects is a keeper in
my opinion...

Dale