Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 23:48:34 -0500
From: Ase <ase at wdn.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What color Dragon are you?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

>  . . . and those folks who pick up the US edition of Swanwick's "The Iron =
> Dragon's Daughter" expecting a nice comfort book based upon the cover are =
> in for quite a rude shock.

Heh. I can just imagine. I read that a couple of years ago- I think I
missed some of the subtext, because the end of the book took me
completely by surprise. ("Wait a minute! How'd we get from *there* to
*here*?") I had a similar reaction at the end of *Stations of the Tide*,
too. "What?! But there's no *reason* for <spoiler> to occur! There was
no hint this was going on earlier in the book! If this were any normal
author, there would have been a plot thread about freedom and slavery,
and *then* they would've done that!" Come to think of it, the
protagonist of the book was, in some ways, remarkably opaque.

It's been too long since I read anything by Swanwick. Well, spring break
is next week, I'll have to add him to the "to read" list. (Which already
includes far too much stuff. I'm not sure if I should be happy I that
won't run out, or in despair because I'll never finish it all by the
time classes start again.)

> & speaking of Lucius & dragons, he has written my favorite closing line:
>
> " . . . from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the =
> dying at the end.  And the heartbreak in between."

I like it. Book and author, please?

Ase(Up far too late, considering there's a 9 AM Chem lecture tomorrow
morning.)
<*>