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%T The Bradbury Chronicles
%E Willam F. Nolan
%E Martin Greenberg
%I ROC
%D November 1991
%O cloyhbound, US$19.95
%P 327
%G ISBN 0-451-45134-1
I don't like the style Ray Bradbury fans and some fellow-writers find
so appealing, and I don't like many of the authors who've gathered
here to pay tribute. Nevertheless, I can tell the difference between
something done badly and something done well that I dislike for other
reasons, and it looks to me as though this anthology is a must-have if
you are a Bradbury fan. The only piece in it I really enjoyed was
Nolan's Bradbury parody at the end, but if you are one of those still
enthralled by Bradbury's muse you will probably find much more to
enjoy.
%T Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat: A Graphic Novel
%A Faye Perozich / Daerick Gross
%I Ballantine
%D November 1991
%O paperback, US$25.00
%G 0-345-37394-4
It was inevitable that someone would attempt to adapt Anne Rice's
vampire books to the graphic novel format. Unfortunately, this volume is
but a pale echo of Rice's fearless depiction of diabolical glory. Faye
Perozich succeeds in condensing Rice's prose into a comprehensible
narrative, but Daerick Gross's paintings are too vague and impressionistic
to do justice to the painful intensity of Lestat's vampiric experience.
His clever use of blood and fire motifs does not quite succeed in capturing
the warped poetry of the violence described in Rice's text. The result: a
failure, albeit a brilliant one. [CCO]
%T Leroni of Darkover
%A Marion Zimmer Bradley, ed.
%I DAW
%D November 1991
%O paperback, 334 pp, US$4.99
%G 0-88677-494-2
"Leroni of Darkover" is typical of MZB's Darkover theme anthologies; it
contains a number of slight, charming stories by women of all ages about
various aspects of Darkovan life. The writing is far from extraordinary,
but the stories are pleasant enough if the reader is sufficiently familiar
with, and fond of, the Darkover novels. [CCO]
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