nrc@cbema.att.COM (Neal R Caldwell, Ii) (03/12/91)
This may have been covered before but if so I missed it. In the Kate discussion group on GEnie (the GE information system) L.PAULLIN1 who goes by Dawn offered the following information... | - New Kate periphery... Many years ago, I subscribed to the | long-time defunct "Breakthrough" out of Canada. In one issue, | someone mentioned a young Canadian fantasy writer who'd | acknowledged Kate as being part of the inspiration for his novel | "Moonheart" (His name's Charles de Lint, I almost left that out). | I found a copy - not easy at that time - and completely fell in | love with his writing. ANYWAY - the point to this is: he has a | new book out, his first horror novel (written under the name of | Samuel M. Key) "Angel of Darkness" - see if this rings any bells : | "...He was aware of every object in the room and his relationship | to it by a sense of echolocation...The sounds...A woman in labor. | A madman's howling. A child's pain as the skin was cut from her, | piece by bloody piece. Made into a music that had no known | counterpart. ...Then something began to take shape...It coalesced | slowly, from a bewildering spin of shapeless mist into a young | woman's face. She floated on the air before him - a vision as | perfect as the music, clothed in filmy white cloth as tattered as | a child's helpless cries. She was an angel of sound. The soul of | the music given a moment of human form..." It goes on about her | l7g, Xle hair and her eyes... when, suddenly (surprise!) she | transforms into a hideous creature with fangs and kills him. | Gosh! Wherever did he get the idea? (Oops) Actually, I always | thought Experiment IV had the potential to make a nifty horror | story. I'm glad he wrote it - the book (in a manner of speaking) | picks up where Kate left off when she got in the van. I recommend | it. And his other books if you like fantasy... He's very lyrical | - he's a folk musician himself...(Can you guess I'm a fan?) Whew! | I hope this finds you all well (and still awake...) | Blessed be... Dawn Later she added... | - "Samuel M. Key's" publisher is Jove. _Angel of Darkness_ | was actually published last October (boy, is my face red - some | fan!) For those who are REAL detail conscious - the ISBN is: | 0-515-10422-1 (in case you have trouble finding the book at your | local store). I have to plug Mr. deLint again - I absolutely love | his work and think that it would appeal to Kate fans quite a bit. | I also think it's pretty nifty that he's openly inspired by Kate's | music. There was another instance in one of his books - can't | recall just where right now - but there was another reference to | her - indirectly - just the phrasing of a particular passage - | but, a fan would recognize it immediately. Oh, she also gets | mentioned by name in A of D. Another author who's inspired by | Kate is Emma Bull. There's a moment in her first novel _A War for | the Oaks_ (which is also quite influenced by de Lint) where the | heroine is walking down a quiet street late at night. She starts | to listen to the rhythm of her footsteps and begins to hum a song | that turns out to be "Cloud- busting." I just get the biggest | charge out of detail like that in a story, I mean I knew EXACTLY | how fast she was walking, etc. I'm sorry, I just ramble until | someone stops me.... Well...that will give you something to chew | on while I go chew on my dinner (my husband's home-made pizza - | yummy! Eat your hearts out!) Love to all and Blessed Be! | | Dawn | (whew) Enjoy! "Don't drive too slowly." Richard Caldwell AT&T Network Systems att!cbnews!nrc nrc@cbnews.att.com
rhill@pnet01.cts.com (Ronald Hil}Il) (03/13/91)
How big is the Kate section on GENIE?? Is it as active as the one here???
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INET: rhill@pnet01.cts.comrpeck@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (Raymond Peck) (03/20/91)
In article <9103120539.AA17861@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> nrc@cbema.att.COM (Neal R Caldwell, Ii) writes: >| transforms into a hideous creature with fangs and kills him. >| Gosh! Wherever did he get the idea? (Oops) Actually, I always >| thought Experiment IV had the potential to make a nifty horror >| story. I'm glad he wrote it - the book (in a manner of speaking) Have I missed a discussion in the past about the origin of Experiment IV? I'm just finishing reading Atlas Shrugged. In it, the State Science Institute builds a machine which destroys things with sound. It's a minor part of the book, for sure, but it seemed quite similar to Ex4. . . it made me wonder whether the Kate's idea came from Ayn. references: Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand copyright 1957 In My Not So Humble Opinion, the best book I've ever read. Moderator-directed p.s.: My love-hounds feed has died. Could you please revive it? I'd like the "digested" format if possible. /**************************************************************** * Ray Peck "The cumulative effects of * * MIPS Design Engineer combustion will render the * * LSI Logic Corporation planet uninhabitable long * * m/s g-810 before we burn the last drop * * 1525 McCarthy Blvd of oil or the last pound of * * Milpitas, CA 95305 coal" - Mason Willrich, * * President/CEO of Pacific * * (408) 954-4638 Gas & Electric Enterprises * * rpeck@lsil.com * * rpeck@jessica.stanford.edu * * * * "Civilization is a race between education and disaster." - * * - Albert Einstein * * * * "I try not to speak more clearly than I think." - N. Bohr * ****************************************************************/