From: Lorelei Lee 
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 95 12:09:09 -0400
Subject: (no subject)

Doug,
Your page is great- I only have one thing to say- before you judge Robert
Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, at least read Time Enough For Love,
The Number of the Beast, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset- and Methusalah's (sic)
Children, too, if you can stomach it. They were meant to be read in order, with
The Cat... after (I believe)  the sequence of Methusalah (sic), Time..., and
The Number..., with To Sail Beyond the Sunset last, being his final book. The
Cat.. may not stand alone very well, but there is a huge interconnection with
these books... die-hard Heinlein fans will find things in The Cat.. that they
won't find anywhere else. But it and Friday are often judged to be two of his
worst adult novels.. and rightly so, he freely admitted that they were mostly
written for the money, although I admit this is true of all his books (in fact
most people's books.) I hope to see your opinion on some of the better Heinlein
books- thank you for listening to a neurotic netscape fanatic/Heinlein fanatic
who just can't help herself.

					Lorelei Lee
 					(brownl2@rpi.edu)
    					http://www.rpi.edu/~brownl2/index.html

P.S. I have a link to your page on mine; It is now on my new links page but
will soon be classified under books in my bookmarks directory. :)

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From: Tom Hiley 
Date:         Fri, 02 Jun 95 10:48:37 CDT
Subject:      Looking for book

I've been trying to learn more information about a science-fiction book that my
dad read sometime in the 60's.  He's told me it's one of the best he's ever
read, and recommends it very highly, but I can't find it anywhere.  Its
title is _They All Died At Breakaway Station_.  Unfortunately, he doesn't
know the author's name.  After I found your exceptional Web Site, I thought
you might have heard of this book.  Is there anything you can tell me about it?
Thanks a lot,

Tom Hiley
tshiley%samford.bitnet@uga.cc.uga.edu

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From: Tom Hiley 
Date:         Wed, 07 Jun 95 08:55:05 CDT
Subject:      Vampire$ movie

First off, let me say thanks a million for your review of Vampire$.  If I
hadn't seen it, I never would have picked the book up (I'm almost finished
with it now, and it's great).  I just thought you'd be interested to know that
the current issue of Cinescape magazine mentions that there is a movie in
development called "Vampires" (no dollar sign) and the description it gives for
it looks very much like it is in fact based on Steakley's book.  It says
something like, "A high-tech group of mercenaries battle vampires for the
Vatican."  I think the book reads very cinematically, and if this movie is
really what I think it is, I'd be the first in line to see it.  Thanks again,

Tom Hiley 

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From: Jim Wagner 
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 95 13:53:59 -0700
Subject: Doug's Sci-Fi Reviews

Dear Doug,

Thanks and congratulations on such a fine collection of book reviews!  
Reading your book reviews has considerably lengthened my "to read" list 
:).

My recommendations:
- "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, as suggested by at least one other 
respondent. I highly recommend it.  I was surprised not to find it there, 
particularly since you plodded through the four similar (but inferior) 
Gibson works.  Unequivocably the most enjoyable book I've read in the 
past two years.
- the Arthur C. Clarke "Rama" series. When the first was written there 
was no plan for a sequel. That may also be true for the second volume. By 
sticking to your plan of reading the series more-or-less together, you 
will probably enjoy them more than many of us who've waited years between 
volumes.
- "Interface" by Stephen Bury which is an excellent combination of 
biotechnology, politics, and suspense in the Crichton genre.
- "Dragon Tears" and "Lightning" by Dean Koontz - The same people who 
poo-poo Stephen King are probably unkind to Koontz; however, since you 
enjoy King you will like Koontz's best stuff.  I have read at least six 
of his books and enjoyed those two the most.  If you like them, consider 
"Watchers" and "Mr. Murder." Beyond that, his storylines seem to get 
repetitive.

Regards,
Jim Wagner
Ann Arbor, MI

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From: nmyerson@iserver.interse.com
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 21:58:57 -0700
Subject: Simmons

	Simmons used to be my favorite author. My friend recommended him about
five years ago and I went right through Carrion Comfort, which I think is his 
best book. Yes, better than Hyperion. The way the plot forms is fantastic. 
Anyway, what makes him drop in my though is his new book Fires of Eden or 
something of that nature (i got it from the library, so don't remember the 
name). It was not excrutiating painful to read, but didn't even have any 
depth.
	Even if you are a big fan of Simmons, do NOT read this book, it can 
only waste your time and ruin your image of him.
	
	By the way one of my favorite short stories is Vanni Fucci is Alive 
and Well and Living in Hell by Simmons.

	Otherwise great list. One question though, you have many of Brust's 
books in your top twenty, but you say you don't recommend the series too 
highly. Is this an error.

	Thanks for the advice, nice job.
	neal

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From: ewayne@mail.pittstate.edu (Earl W. Lee)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 08:36:03 +22310353 (CDT)
Subject: review from Technomancer (fwd)

I thought you might be interested in this.  _Drakulya_ is a novel based
on the idea of vampires as psychic parasites that move from body to
body, as in the SF novel _The Madness Season_ by C.S. Friedman.  I am
currently working on a screenplay of _D._ and (with K. DeGrave) a novel
about time-travel, called _Slipstream_.  For more reviews of _Drakulya_
visit my home page at:

http://www.pittstate.edu/~ewayne/books.html

Thanks!  Earl Lee

Forwarded message:
> 
> The Sci-Fi magazine _Technomancer_ can be viewed at:
> 	http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/techno

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From: ramsey@desperado.sp.trw.com (Scott Ramsey)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 95 18:29:55 PDT
Subject: Book Reviews

I enjoyed reading your page very much - got some great suggestions. I am
glad to see another Brust fan in the making. I was surprised you had only
read Zelazny's Amber series (he is one of my favorite authors and is
supposed to be a strong influence on Brust). Zelazny novels that you may
like more than Amber are 'This Immortal' (hard to find), 'Roadmarks' and
'Isle of the Dead' which are all reminiscent of Vlad Taltos in one way or
another. I also respected 'Lord of Light' but found it was not as 'fun'
as the other ones I mentioned.

-Scott
ramsey@desperado.sp.trw.com

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From: "Gary Reents" 
Date:          Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:54:46 +0000
Subject:       Library Page

  Hi, Doug

I was just surfing and did a Webcrawer search on Brust and your 
Library page was listed in the hit list. I wanted post a line or 
two,to tell you that I really enjoyed the page.

I was particulary pleased that you also like Steakley. Do you know if 
he has published anything since Vampire$. I've been keeping an eagle 
eye out for his books and have been keeping an ey on the publishers 
pages and gophers, but I haven't seen anything. I thought Armor in
particular was a topnotch book.

Brust is my favorite author, but Glen  Cook is a close second. I love the 
Garrett files and the Black Company books. I understand that he will 
be coming out with The Glittering Stone if GM shuts down for 
retooling like expected. 

Anyway, just wanted to drop a line to say thanks for the effort on 
the page. I'll be watching with interest for the Brust page.

Take care
Gary

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From: nmyerson@iserver.interse.com
Subject: Gilden-fire

i started reading the tom covenent stuff, and is there a fourth book to the 
first series? I figure that since he was your favorite author you would know. 
I saw a listing of Gilden-fire in the first series. What is this?

thanks,
neal

##I responded:
##
##To: nmyerson@iserver.interse.com
##Subject: Re: Gilden-fire
## 
##Gilden-Fire is a short-story/outtake from "The Illearth War" describing
##part of the journey of Hyrim and Shetra through the Sarangrave Flat.
##This entire story was cut (for reasons Donaldson explains in the intro
##to Gilden-Fire) and assimilated into the chapter "Korik's Tale", in
##which Korik (or maybe it was "Runnik's Tale"...the first of the two)
##tells Covenant about the Lurker of the Sarangrave and so forth.     
## 
##Doug
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From: Bruce Levine 
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 14:33:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: reviews

Do you review novels published on the internet?  If you do, I have an 
unusual fantasy quest novel at New badger Books I'd like to send you.

Bruce Levine
Blevine@crl.com  "Lost in cyberspace"

## I'll happily accept review copies of books, but I can't promise that
## I will read them.  My reading time is precious to me, so I'm very picky
## about diving into completely unexplored territory without some good
## recommendations.  In fact, this is largely the reason I designed my
## book reviews page, to get feedback and pointers to new books.

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From: xxxx
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 15:40:42 -500
Subject: Donaldson...

Hi Doug,
    Love your web pages. They are way helpful when I'm stuck for 
what to read next. I'm trying to find information about Stephen 
Donaldson (the best writer on the planet!!), do you know of 
any home pages dedicated to him or any other info in web land.
I did a search on him and came up with your page (which I was 
eternally thankful for) and an interview he did a while ago, anything
else you could pass on would be appreciated.
    Thanks in advance.
       
## I know of no Donaldson home pages, but a great place to look for
## more Covenant-related material would be Karen Wyn Fonstad's "The
## Atlas of the Land".  

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From: (Michael Levy) 
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 20:32:41 -0400
Subject: Your Library

   Hi. I like your annotated library, and I've been considering doing a
similar thing myself. Would you mind if I gave you credit on my page, and
included a pointer to yours? Also, on another subject, I saw your note 
regarding the increased number of accesses of your page, and was wondering
how you could tell. Would it be possible, for instance, for me to be able
to see the addresses of the people who have accessed my homepage?

Michael Levy, mlevy1@umbc8.umbc.edu      
Homepage: http://umbc.edu/~mlevy1

## I keep track of statistics for our whole site using a handy public
## domain program called wusage.  Look at the link:
##
##	"http://www.astro.washington.edu/usage/index.html"
##
## to see an example of how it's done and find more information about
## wusage.  Every site has a log file that you ought to be able to
## browse...contact your friendly neighborhood webmaster.

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From: Kirk Reeves 
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 22:32:02 -0700
Subject: Book Review

Doug,

    I greatly enjoyed your review page.  I scaned your book rankings and 
found that I shared a great many of your views.  I want to recommend 
three books to you that I have found excepional.

Emerald Eyes - Daniel Keys Moran
The Long Run - Daniel Keys Moran
The Last Dancer - Daniel Keys Moran

If you ever get a chance to read them don't pass it up.

          Glad to see you on the net,

          Kirk Reeves 
          (http://www.kde.state.ky.us:8080/kreeves/index.html)

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From: Dan Swartzendruber 
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 95 13:06:50 -0400
Subject: Re: Review of _The_Guns_of_the_South by Harry Turtledove

I loved this book too!  Of course, I love alternate-history SF,
since I'm a big SF reader *and* a history buff (particularly
military history).  If you haven't heard it, I was at a panel
on alternate-history at a Worldcon a couple of years back, and
Harry explained where he got the idea from for this book.
Basically, he'd been in a bitch session with another author about
the perversions perpetrated on authors by cover artists.  The
other author was complaining that the cover for his/her book not
only bore no relation to the contents, but was as anachronistic
as Robert E Lee holding an Uzi.  Harry laughed dutifully and
walked away.  He couldn't get the image out of his mind, and
started wondering "how on Earth that could plausibly happen".

#include 

Dan S.

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From: Molly
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 20:28:38 -700
Subject: Book Reviews.

   Hi. I'm sorry to bother you - you needn't pay much attention to this if
you're busy. I just completed reading your list of book reviews and I know
of a fantasy series that you may like if you haven't already read it.

Judith Tarr
Book I.   The Hall of the Mountain King
Book II.  The Lady of Han-Gilan
Book III. A Fall of Princes (the best book by far of the series)

  If you have some time they may be of interest to you.

  -Molly

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From: yum 
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 16:41:45 +0800
Subject: Steven Brust

I was perusing through your book reviews and you convinced me to start 
reading the Steven Brust serieses... but I'm curious to know which 
series to start with: The Khaavren Romances or the Vlad Taltos Books... 
or does it not matter?  TIA

Youshik Um                                              Pomona College
yum@pomona.edu                                   http://www.pomona.edu

## I suggest starting with Jhereg, Yendi, etc., then you'll have a good
## background and will be able to better appreciate the history that
## is laid out in Khaavren.

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From: jost@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Patrick Jost)
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 95 20:51:47 EDT
Subject: Re: Review of _The_Guns_of_the_South by Harry Turtledove

Good review...and you left out the big spoiler. But since my mom
was S. African, I knew what AWB was right away...and I'm glad
HT managed to show the AWB for the horrible bunch of monsters
that they are.

BTW, all seems to be going well in S. Africa, I have an email 
pen pal there, she's in politics, there is some instability
but not the Swartgevaar (peril caused by blacks) that the AWB
predicted.

Patrick

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From nmyerson@iserver.interse.com Fri Jun 30 18:59:03 1995
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 18:58:59 -0700
Subject: one more question

welli cruised through the first covenant series, and i found a great book 
store that has all of the black company except one, Silver Spike. Why on the 
covers of the books does it leave this one out. For example each book says The 
X Chronicles of the Black Company or something like that, i don't have them 
with me. anyway The White Rose is the third and the cover of Shadow Games says 
it the Fifth.

and why is that Silver Spike is the only one of the series i can't find. are 
these two mysterious events related.

the other day i was reminded of a fantstic book, The Neverending Story, Ya, ya 
i know the movie was as exciting tying your shows, but the book is truly 
amazing. it is by some guy name Ende. the book is original in dutch or some 
language over there and  is only in a paperback version that costs 12 dollars. 
but get it.

neal

## The Silver Spike is actually a side-story involving Raven set in the
## same world as The Black Company.  It's quite good.

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## The letter that follows is a response from David Brin to my
## request to purchase "Glory Season" directly from him as part
## of the "Basement Full of Books" program.  Unfortunately, just
## after this email exchange, I found an excellent condition
## hardback version of the book for $4 at a Barnes & Noble
## bookstore bargain table.  Couldn't pass that up.

From brin@alumni.caltech.edu Fri Jul  7 01:14:45 1995
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 01:14:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Glory Season (purchase by mail)

Hi... thanks for the reference.  Though I'm 2400 baud,
I'll try to look up your site.  MSG follows...

Hello!    Just got your query about my hardcover titles
available by direct sale.  Currently available --
 
EA -- $ 20.00
GLORY SEASON  -- $22.00 
 
(Although less expensive, EARTH was printed on acid-free,
recycled paper, with sewn bindings, a truly lovely edition.
GLORY SEASON comes on acid free paper.  It cost me more to buy)
 
Special collectable editions of Earth (leather) and Otherness
(the rare hardcover) may also be available to collectors.
 
ALSO please include a self addressed, padded envelope with  
$4.10 postage on it.  EARTH measures just under 7x10x3 inches.  
I'll send it soon thereafter.  If you have a special request for 
the signature, please enclose it, as well.
 
[Address deleted by request of Mr. Brin]
(Note --please keep the address confidential.  I trust the sort of 
folks who browse Basement Fulla Books to be fairly responsible.)   
 
Peace and good luck...  David Brin

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From 73443.1626@compuserve.com Fri Jul 14 05:24:14 1995
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 08:21:54 -0400
Subject: BOOK REVIEW SITE???

Doug -

     I appreciate your insights and work towards sharing good reading
lists with everyone.

    Now, have you any idea where on the Internet I can find a collection
of general fiction book reviews?  Say, best sellers and all award winners
for the past five years?  Something online like BOOK REVIEW DIGEST,
MAGILL BOOK REVIEWS, or back issues of LIBRARY JOURNAL would
be an excellent start.  I've spent hours webbing, but cannot seem to
find any promising leads yet.

   How about access into a university library that keeps something like
those online via CDROM?  

     I sure will appreciate any leads you might be able to give me.

     Thanks much.

Tom Veerkamp

## I suggest IBIC as a good place to start.  You can get there from
## my list of book links (see the end of the book reviews page).
## I told Mr. Veerkamp that he could probably find what he wanted 
## within 3 links (sort of tongue-in-cheek knowing full well how
## exponentials work on the Web.  :)

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From dspencer@WPI.EDU Mon Jul 17 08:50:05 1995
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 11:50:01 -0400
Subject: Your Library

Your library page is very impressive.

I thought I'd suggest something:  your Harry Harrison section is
missing one of the best speculative fiction series I've ever
read, IMO.

They are all out in paperback, I forget all the names but the first one is
West of Eden, and there's Winter in Eden, and another as well, but I
can't recall the title.

They are based on the question: What would have happened if the Dinosaurs
evolved into intelligence instead of the humans, and the humans were nothing
but a savage bunch of primates under the Dinosaur's dominion?

Very good stuff.

Just in general recommendations for stuff to read, Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Mists of Avalon is excellent (the prequel, The Forest House, was just released
but I didn't like it was much).  Mists of Avalon is basically the story of
King Arthur and Camelot, retold from the view of the women in the story,
with a very strong pro-pagan flavor.  Very interesting.

Hrm--what else to say.  Oh yes, I'm not sure Mummy belongs in the vampire
chronicles. Not sure if the mayfair witches stories are up your alley or
not, but I liked them alot.

I'd also recommend the Alvin Maker series by Orscon Scott Card if you
like his stuff at all--speculation set in early 19th century America where
magic is real (i.e. hexes, indian magic, etc).

As for Asimov--I'm surprised you hated Nemesis so much.  I mean it wasn't
spectacular, but it wasn't _that_ bad :)  Oh well. 

Hrm--don't know what else to say, except that your taste in fiction seems
to closely parallel mine which is nice to find :) I too love King and Clancy
almost as much as Donaldson and Tolkien, and I too think Ender's Game is
Card's best work, etc.  I'm currently reading the newly released Anne Rice
vampire book, so that's not quite up your alley--but I just finished the
riftwar series and loved it.

Oh well--glad I stumbled onto your page :)

-Dave

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From Dale_Ogden_at_RI__ANA__CC4@ccmail.anatcp.rockwell.com Tue Jul 18 08:26:46 1995
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 08:25:20 PST
Subject: books you might want to read

     I just recently found your homepage in the web.  In reading through 
     your reviews, I found that I agreed with your views quite a few times. 
     
     I noticed there were no reviews of books by L.E. Modisett, Jr.  
     Specifically The Magic of Recluse, The Towers of Sunset and The Magic 
     Engineer.  These three books are all related but not tightly.  Of the 
     three I recommend you read The Magic of Recluse as I enjoyed it very 
     much.
     
     Dale Ogden
     fdogden@earthlink.net

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From nmyerson@iserver.interse.com Mon Jul 24 14:17:21 1995
Subject: Glen Cook psuedo news group

It is located at:

http://sf.www.lysator.liu.se/sf_archive/sf-texts/authors/C/Cook,Glen

also i wrote to tor and they said that the glittering stone is a three book 
series and the first has already been written. it will be due out in hardback 
in may 1996. so if i understand you correctly, you wont be reading this series 
for 4-5 five years. i feel sorry for you, but can i recommend a visit to you r 
public library at that time. 

anyways i just want to add that i gave your link to my friend and he kind of 
agrees with you. our, we like the same books top three are:

ender's game
carrion comfort
neverending story (yes, it is excellent)

a lot of people like the first two, but wont give neverending story a chance. 
try it, you wont be sorry.

neal

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From andys@simba.lakeside.sea.wa.us Sat Jul 29 17:15:49 1995

I love your page, with all the reviews.  I have a few things to point 
out, however.  First of all, Anne Rice's The Mummy is not the fourth 
book in The Vampire Chronicles, It's a stand alone (although she is 
planning a sequel).  The 4th Vampire book is called The Tale of the Body 
Thief, the 5th is Memnoch the Devil.  Both were fairly good, IMHO the 
second (Vampire Lestat) was Anne Rice's best.
Also, Jennifer Roberson has written several non-Cheysuli books, they're 
fairly good.  It's the Sword Dancer Series (I think there's 4 -- I'm not 
sure).
I've read every Stephen Brust I could get my hands on, and liked most of 
them.  The only one I didn't take to very well was the one about the 4 
brothers & the taltos horse.  The Gypsy was his best, IMHO.  Stephen R 
Donaldson's Thomas Covenent books I've read several times over, each.  I 
think I prefer the original three, but they're all great.  He's got an 
incredible understanding of the human condition.

Cool page...

alex shepard
acidic@u.washington.edu

BTW, have you read any 'cyberpunk' authors?  ie William 
Gibson, Bruce Sterling.  Very highly recommended, indeed.

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From dawks@best.com Sun Jul 30 22:03:46 1995
Subject: Interesting web page

Hi,

been looking at your web page re book reviews. Given me a lot of good 
ideas for some new reading. Thought in return i'd mention a set of books 
that hooked me completely. It's a sort of gothic fantasy, although not 
really; can't place it against anything, but it tells of an invented 
"world" in the spirit of Dune or Lord of the Rings: It's the Gormenghast 
trilogy by Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone). First 
two are startling, but i believe he became mentally ill while writing the 
third, and it sort of shows. Apologies if you've already read them.

phil.

The world is divided into two sorts of people: those that believe the
world is divided into two sorts of people, and those that don't.