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- Subject: Re: New Year Pizza Party
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.051517.27820@atlantis.uucp>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:15:17 GMT
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- Henry Polard (henry@netcom.com) wrote:
- : I used to live in Trawna, and was a member of OSFiC. I have the
- : pleasure and priviledge of knowing Esther Rochon, and have translated a
- : couple of her short stories into English. I've tried to market them, but to
- : no avail. A few stories of hers have been published in English; I
- : don't know which, unfortunately.
-
- In RL(which Callahaners can see briefly)Alfvaen rushes to his bookshelves,
- pulling a few books off. He flips through the first pages of the first, then
- puts it back. Then he checks the second, says, "Aha." He spends a few minutes
- reading in that book, then says, "'Canadola' by Esther Rochon, translated by
- John Greene, in Tesseracts3." He walks to another shelf and pulls out another
- book, a trade paperback this time. Again, he flips through the book and reads
- for a few minutes. "'Xils', by Esther Rochon, translated by Lucille
- Nelson, from Tesseracts2," he says when he finishes that one.
-
- "Now, I must admit that thinking of Esther Rochon does not immediately bring
- those two stories to mind, but I remember them when I read them, and maybe
- I'll remember them now. So she does have a few published in English, at that."
-
- : I noticed that a book (The City something)
- : by Elisabeth Vornarberg, another Montreal author,
- : has gotten very good reviews in Anglophonia.
-
- "I've read 'The Silence of The City', and 'In The Mothers' Land' is on my list
- of books to be read Real Soon Now, since it's eligible for an Aurora this year,
- and the Aurora-eligible list forms a sizeable part of my shopping list. I went
- out and bought twelve of them just a few days ago."
-
- : Could you recommend a couple of Canadian authors that write
- : distincly Canadian science fiction? (As if I didn't
- : have an Everest of books in my house to read...)
-
- "Well, you've come to the right place. I'm your local expert on Canadian SF,
- and probably one of the best-informed on the Net. I'm not sure on what
- 'distinctly Canadian SF' is, except that it's usually not science fiction per
- se as much as speculative fiction. But I can indeed recommend a few.
-
- "Candas Jane Dorsey(president of SF Canada, and also a friend of mine)has a
- book called 'Machine Sex & Other Stories' from Tesseract/Beach Holme books,
- and a novel that may be coming out soon.
-
- "Charles de Lint writes a lot of interesting stuff, the majority of which is
- modern faery fiction. I'd recommend 'Jack The Giant-Killer' for that genre,
- and a lot of his short fiction, which hasn't really been collected yet. Also
- good are 'Svaha', which is Native American meets Cyberpunk; 'Yarrow', another
- modern fantasy; and 'Wolf Moon', a fairly straight fantasy with a bit of a
- twist. I've also heard that 'Moonheart' is good, especially if 'Svaha' doesn't
- grab you. And he also writes horror under the name Samuel M. Key.
-
- "Apart from that, nothing 'distinctly Canadian' comes to mind. I can think of
- a lot of good Canadian authors, like Dave Duncan, Spider Robinson, Michael
- Coney, Tanya Huff, Robert Sawyer, Antony Swithin, Pauline Gedge, Guy Gavriel
- Kay, etc. Pick up the Tesseracts anthology series, if you haven't already.
- Try H.A. Hargreaves' 'North by 2000'. Try 'Other Canadas', or 'Ark of Ice'.
-
- "I know about having an Everest of books...but the Canadian stuff gets priority
- in my reading lists. I hope that you find something that grabs you.
-
- "I'm interested in reading some Esther Rochon stuff, by the way. Email me and
- maybe I can buy some..."
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
- "Give me your mirth. It bores me when you weep. My loves you cannot touch. They're buried deep." ---Don Marquis
- Current Album--Janet Jackson:Control
- Current Read--Tesseracts4
-