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• Comparing C.J. Cherryh's Fantasy with her SF

>From: Jo Jaquinta <jaymin>
>Subject: CherryhList: D&D strikes back
>Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 9:24:32 GMT

Nancy Ott says:
> (I apologize to anyone who likes Anthony
> and Brooks, but Beagle and Williams blow their socks off artistically,
> if not commercially.)
	Peter S. Beagle! One of the great underappreciated authors of
our time. Do you know how long I have been trying to get my hand on
the soundtrack of "The Last Unicorn"?
	Anyway, you may find it interesting to note that a recent
supplement by TSR for their AD&D universe is titled "The Complete
Book of Elves" and is all about using Elves in your campaign. In
their bibliography section, which only contains about 10 books,
they have Cherryh's "Tree of Swords and Jewels" and "The Dreamstone"
listed.
	I can't contrast these to the Russian sequence (I am rationed
on Cherryh books. She doesn't write fast enough for me so to avoid
being all out of Cherryh so I ration them. I've got the Russian
books and the Morgaine novels saved for an emergency :-) but I think
quite highly of the two Elf books. I'm a great fan of high-tragedy
and much prefer the doom struck elves rather than flighty fairies.
	Terry Pratchett is supposed to have a new book out about elves
(Lords and Ladies?). Has anyone read it and do they think it bears any
influence from Cherryh?

				Jo

Translation:

beagle		D&D		ration		tragic		pratchett
fantasy		elves		cherryh		doom		elves
wow		reccomend	not		elves		cherryh
wow		cherryh		enough		love		like

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