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Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth

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Ted Nolan <tednolan> <ted@loft.tnolan.com> wrote:
> In article <p7At30.q3n@kithrup.com>,
> Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>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.  :)
>>
> 
> Almost every story mentioned that as it was the divergence point.
> 
> Also, probably why they don't get reprinted..

I don't know about the individual stories, but according to isfdb, 
there are e-book releases of the AoB fix-up/collection from 2013 
(Gateway/Orion) and 2015 (Open Road Integrated Media), and a paper 
version (perhaps trade paperback) that is slated for release in 
May of 2018, also by Open Road Integrated Media.

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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