Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:54:48 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] S. M. Stirling has this to say ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"Keith Robert's PAVANE is one of the ur-examples of alternate history, and =
a crackling good story (or set of stories) with sharply realized characters=
 who are at once very much of their time and place and yet universally =
human.  But it's quite a bit more; a beautiful and moving meditation on =
the arc of history, the price and benefits of progress and tradition, and =
the interaction of necessity and free will.  Finally, the landscape =
descriptions are some of the most memorable in science fiction, or for =
that matter in fiction generally.  To use an overworked word, it is a =
classic."

As the kids say: w00t !!

mjw