Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth

From	nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance)
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth
Date	2018-04-16 14:47 +0000
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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. 

Tony

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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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