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Comments on the "*** in Hell" series

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
>Subject: cherryhlist
>Date: Thu, 4 Feb 93 9:39:47 GMT

Having just rummaged through my old bookcases at my parents', I came
across two of the _Hell_ books. Has anyone else read these? What did you
think? I found _Knights in Hell_ (?) the novel by Cherryh alone, to be
quite good, if one of the oddest things she's ever written. [The Roman/classic
contingent, led by Julius Caesar, decide to escape. Brutus can only
remember up to a summer when he was 17, and can't understand why no one
trusts him. Achilles is a copter pilot. Alexander finds redemption when he
finds Bucephalus (in a scene which proves beyond all reasonable doubt that
Cherryh has read and been influenced by Mary Renault). Machiavelli gets
dragged along as the devil's liason officer, and the Americans are hiring
out to the highest bidder]. Very strange stuff, that works in a strange sort
of way. She's also got a story in each of the collections (the ones I have
anyway).

			Lesley