lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley (06/05/85)
From: lah%ucbmiro@Berkeley (First Lieutenant Leigh Ann Hussey) Diana is far from being new in the fantasy field. For starters, you can read her previous stories in the "Thieves' World" series. Then there are the chronicles of Westria (set in a post-cataclysm earth in which the only folk deemed worthy to survive are the Society for Creative Anachronism -- just kidding). Titles: Lady of Light; Lady of Darkness. Both published by Pocket Timescape and subsequently victims of the strange mix of bureaucratese etc. that surrounded the folding of that line. The sequels have been bought by Tor, and the third book tentatively titled Silverhair the Wanderer will be out next year some time. Other short stories have appeared in Amazing and Hecate's Cauldron (published by DAW), and Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Sword and Sorceress" anthologies and the "Greyhaven" anthology. Also soon to be released (from Berkley?): White Mare, Red Stallion, a romance novel with a twist (it's set in 6th or so century Scotland; how many romance heroines carry on cogent conversations with the disembodied heads of their fathers?). As you can tell, I like her stuff too, and I think Brisingamen's the best of the lot. I'll let her know she got a fan letter... Leigh Ann
DOLSON@USC-ECLB.ARPA (06/05/85)
From: Douglas M. Olson <dolson@USC-ECLB.ARPA> : callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Gaylene Callaghan) writes: >Why haven't I read anything on Diana Paxson on this net? ... >Is she new to the field? Or has she been around (in cognito) for >awhile? Has she written anything else? (quickly, I'm almost >finished with Brisingamen) Diana Paxson has written two other novels that I know about, I believe they are called LADY OF LIGHT and LADY OF DARKNESS. She has been an associate of Marion Zimmer Bradley for awhile and is included in several of MZB's anthologies; I'm not certain she is in all of these, but try GREYHAVEN, SWORD AND SORCERESS I and II, and perhaps the anthologies of the Friends of Darkover, SWORD OF CHAOS and (*arghh*) memory fails me as to the other anthology name. Sorry, my books are 2000 miles away! I remember discovering several other authors in those anthologies, whose works I have continued to snap up whenever I find them...the only one I can name is Jennifer Roberson, who published SHAPECHANGERS last year. MZB has tried to encourage new authors with her anthologies, she evidently reads a large slushpile every year. If you support such efforts, give the books a buy, you never know what you'll find... ddo (dolson @ eclb.arpa) -------
callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (06/07/85)
From: callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Gaylene Callaghan DTN:523-4523) Thanks to everyone that responded to my inquiry of Diana Paxson. I had no idea I'd been missing out on so much. (and I thought I'd been reading quite a bit lately.... hmmm) Gaylene "Presto... RRRROOOOAAAAARRRRR ... hmm, better get me another hat!"