Comments on: Another Green World

By: Liz Hand

Liz Hand — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:21:50 +0000

Hi Henry (and everyone else), I just wanted to say thanks for the truly insightful review—you absolutely nailed my earlier stuff in your reference to me not always being in control of the material & being overwhelmed by it. Truer words never spake, or spoke. I’m glad you liked ML —it was the result of trying (for five years!) to get a handle on what I do so I wouldn’t screw it up—well, at least not screw it up completely. Thanks again … All best, Liz

By: clew

clew — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:40:42 +0000

Maynard, Charles de Lint lost me completely by once using a Swinburne verse for an epigraph and attributing it to “folk”. Totally tin-eared, and the editor has even less excuse.

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:19:01 +0000

I wasn’t exactly burned by Black Light, but it didn’t make me want to read more. I take it Henry is saying that I shouldn’t carry that lesson over to the new stuff.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:09:00 +0000

I dunno, man. Like KM, I too have been burned badly by Elizabeth Hand. Apotheosis, transcendence, importance? These would be themes I’d want her to avoid.

By: seth edenbaum

seth edenbaum — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:35:56 +0000

I’m not much for fantasy of SF (whether that means science or speculative fiction) but the Eno reference was nice.

By: Neel Krishnaswami

Neel Krishnaswami — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:03:43 +0000

On a lower cultural register, I noticed that Elizabeth Hand was the author chosen to write the novelization of the Catwoman movie. I did not buy it, but spent a few minutes marvelling at the choice of the perfectly right writer for a perfectly wrong project.

By: Kip Manley

Kip Manley — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:49:03 +0000

Man, I've wanted her to rope her material down into something coherent since I got burned so badly (but magnificently) by Waking the Moon. But Glimmering seemed like a bunch of steps in any of a number of wrong directions, so I stopped checking. (Never did finish Winterlong, and I've long since lost my copy.) —I'll have to crack a copy next time I'm at Powell's.

By: Maynard Handley

Maynard Handley — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:17:07 +0000

Garrulous and malicious Swinburne may have been, but damn, has anyone before or since ever been able to manipulate English so magnificently? He may not have had anything to say, but who cares; you just get lost in the flow of the words. Yeah, I know nobody likes him but me, but heck, I spotted an excuse to mention him, and I took it.