chabot@miles.DEC (All God's chillun got guns) (08/16/85)
Here's a recommendation for Barry Hughart's _Bridge_of_Birds_. It's almost as good as finding a new Ernest Brama, except that BofB has more supernatural happenings and every other sentence is not an aphorism. (Now, if I could only find copies of my own of _Kai_Lung's_Golden_Hours_ and _Kai_Lung_Unrolls_His_Mat_. Or wait until BofB's sequel is out.) BofB is funny. Oh, and it's a fantasy of a China that never was (which I think is just how the Kai Lung books have been described, too)--I mention it just so those expecting some sort of space opera or evidence of historical accuracy won't be lead astray. "A bad idea can point to the truth, but empty-headedness only leads to empty-headedness or a career in politics." L S Chabot ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa