Just hanging there, face froze

[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

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

It's been described as similar in some ways to Lord of Light, except with Egyptian mythology. And also, Creatures of Light and Darkness is pure crack both in subject matter and stylistic experimentation. I love it very much, but it's more obscure than Lord of Light and I imagine that's why.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :-)

[sovay]

It's been described as similar in some ways to Lord of Light, except with Egyptian mythology.

Lord of Light was the first Zelazny I ever read. I have no idea why, except it was on the shelf next to the box set of the first four Amber novels and it looked interesting. [edit] The original Amber quartet is another case where I read the books very, very young and retained only a fragmentary understanding of them until re-reading in college. I remembered liking Random, and still did. I have not re-read Lord of Light and have no idea how it would hold up now.