Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:16:53 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: S. M. Stirling has this to say ...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> "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
<snip>
Yep. It's been decades since I read it, and it's pissing me off not to
be able to find my copy on the shelf where it's supposed to be, but I
vaguely remember it as just the title: a slow and stately dance.

mark
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