On Sun, 25 May 2003, Sean wrote: :Subject: Re: Elric (was Lord of Castle Black is up at Amazon) : :Steve said: : :Which explains why I groove on them so much - though I am not familiar with :the works of Hammet, my top ten list of favourite fantasy writes goes - :Zelazny, Moorcock (just read his new one - Dreamthief's Daughter - quite :good - love the background on Oona) and Leiber (the other 7 are irrelevant :to this list). on moorcock notes: I really liked Dreamthief's Daughter (bits of it echoed Lovecraft for me, particularly the dreamlands stuff), but I just read its sequel (the skrayling tree), and while it did bits of holdstock (mmm, mythic forests), it wasn't anywhere near as good. imho. Arin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Arin Komins akomins at uchicago.edu Manager of Web Systems Architecture University of Chicago/ENSS/NSIT tel: (773)834-4087 1155 E. 60th St. #302B Chicago, IL 60637 fax: (773)702-0559 ------------------------------------------------------------------