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[sovay]

1. My poem "Gorgoneion" has been accepted by The Cascadia Subduction Zone. It was written a few nights ago, after discovering this statue. It's a prayer.

2. All that stuff I mentioned about Uncanny Magazine yesterday? It's live! Enjoy!

3. Strange Horizons Fund Drive! Less than two weeks to go and we haven't even unlocked Rose Lemberg and Emily Jiang's musical collaboration. Doesn't anyone other than me want to read a new novella by Ann Leckie set in the Radch-verse?

Some kind stranger who is almost certainly yhlee sent me a copy of Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness (1969)! I can't tell anything about it from the back-cover text at all. I am looking forward.

Comments

[sovay]

Congrats on the poem!

Thank you!

And yes, that was me with the book. I hope you enjoy it (or, alternately, find enjoyable snark in it, whatever happens).

Seriously, this is the Avon paperback copy:

"A thousand thousand years ago . . .

The Middle Worlds of Life were ruled by the Angels, immortals who maintained the fragile balance of existence while bowing to one only—the Prince Who Was A Thousand. But the Prince is long fallen, his Angels and their stations long destroyed. Now Anubis and Osiris rule the twin houses of Life and Death . . . and their terrible reign has seen feast and famine overrun the six races of man and all the worlds they occupy . . .

One such world is Blis. Now to this place come emissaries from the twin houses, bent on destroying the only remaining threat to their power—the long-vanished Prince . . . and all those who would dare stand with him."

I don't know what I'm looking at, except it sounds vaguely Hermetic and possibly cracktastic. But it succeeds in making me want to read the book to find out. Thank you!

[yhlee]

It's PURE CRACK. It's cracky even EDIT: /more/ for [fixed braino] Zelazny--not just in subject matter, but in stylistic hijinks. I look forward to hearing what you think of it (and will probably be doing a reread myself after I finish Dickson's Soldier, Ask Not, which has priority due to being a library book). :)

[sovay]

. It's cracky even EDIT: /more/ for [fixed braino] Zelazny--not just in subject matter, but in stylistic hijinks.

Yay, stylistic crack! Let me get a couple of books for professional review out of the way and I shall report on my findings!

[edit] I read the novel today on various subways; it's great! The chapter in poetry and the chapter in the form of a play. The far-future Egyptian myth and the six intelligent races of the universe and the carpet woven with the fibers of Osiris' enemy which he jumps up and down on when he's stressed. I can see why it was dedicated to Delany. I can also see how it became a book you love. The prose is wonderful.