At 11:49 PM 2/1/06 -0500, Martha Krieg wrote: > George MacDonald The Princess and Curdie and the other one about them...
I believe that _The Princess and the Goblins_ was the first book and _The Princess and Curdie_ was the sequel. I can't remember anything now except that I liked them very, very much. And goblins have soft feet. Sigh. All my favorite SF authors are going to fantasy because it pays better. This worked out very well with Lois McMaster Bujold, who came up with an entirely new concept in pantheons and she'd pretty much worked out the vein in her most-popular SF universe anyway. The non-"five gods" _Spirit Ring_ is also very good. But Catharine Asaro's shape-magic books are actually less magical than her SF romances. Lawrence Watt-Evans' fantasies might well be *better* than his SF -- though he's gone over to series, and what I liked about him at first was that no two books were in the same genre, let alone the same universe. Well, nobody can keep that up forever. And he's got a new Ethshar book due out Real Soon Now: href="http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganexperiment0.html . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the college girls are jogging in *shorts*. Rain is predicted. What is this, April? To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
