David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: > > > > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/6113/t100249.txt > > > > God Stalk is 57! Woo! > > > > Except then I look at the top, and see _Armor_ at 14, and > > I remind myself Internet votes mean squat. > > Anybody ever heard of _Krew Elfow_ by A. Sapkowski? (#5) Hmm... I haven't read that particular book, but Andrzej Sapkowski is a well-known polish fantasy author. That one seems to be his first wiedzmin novel, named "Elf Blood". Two of his short-story collections that belong to the Wiedzmin-series were published here in Germany a while ago. IMO very good plot ideas. I enjoyed reading them and was quite disappointed when the publisher can- celled the series before they got to the real novels. Almost all of his books were also translated to Russian and Czech. Sapkowski takes well known (and not-so-well-known) fairy tale and myth concepts and presents them in the context of his story in a new way and from interesting angles. In fact, considering it now, he reminds me quite a bit of Brust... :P BTW, in Poland they even made a movie from his Wiedzmin books (Wiedzmin = witcher, constructed from "witch") :) Some links: A witcher short story translated to english: http://www.warsawvoice.pl/v498/Peop01.html Another short story: http://www.polishwriting.net/malady.htm biography/bibliography, secondary info: http://www.polska2000.pl/en/authors/sapkowski_andrzej.html http://www.europalia.pl/www.europalia.pl/en/home16.html Hope that helps a bit ;) ~Sebastian Schwenk