Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth

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From	djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject	Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth
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Date	2018-04-16 21:59 +0000
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In article <pb2d2s$9vu$1@dont-email.me>,
Anthony Nance <nance@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> wrote:
>> On 4/15/2018 11:35 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>>> Have you read Turtledove's_The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump_?
>>> It's alternate-world-just-like-ours-except-with-magic done with
>>> skill and a laudable attention to detail.  There's a whole lot of
>>> Turtledove I can't/won't read, but this is an exception.
>> 
>> I fully agree.  Spell Dump is the only Turtledove I have been
>> able to read.  And I have reread it several times.
>
>I very much enjoyed Spell Dump. I'm not a big alternate history
>person, but let me also suggest Turtledove's  _Agent of Byzantium_ .
>It's basically a fix-up of short stories that feature Byzantine 
>secret agent Basil Argyros, set in an alternate 14th Century. 
>Argyros is sent across the empire to solve various problems, and 
>the stories hit some (some!) of the same notes that "Lest Darkness Fall"
>hit for me. 

I have read only one bit of that alt-hist, a short story whose
title I can't remember ... but it featured Turtledove's major
POD, a fantatical Christian monk named Mohammed.  :)

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-15 09:19 -0600
  Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 16:35 +0000
    Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-04-15 20:45 +0000
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-15 15:36 -0600
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-04-15 17:39 -0400
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-15 21:43 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 22:33 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-04-15 21:43 -0700
    Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2018-04-16 08:07 -0500
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 13:26 +0000
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2018-04-16 14:47 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 21:59 +0000
          Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-16 22:29 +0000
            Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 23:42 +0000
            Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2018-04-17 14:07 +0000
              Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-17 16:07 +0000
  Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-16 15:13 +0000

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