Well, I feel kinda sheepish...

[Desdichado]

So, just when you think you're safe; you write a blog, but you assume that you're Joe Blow nobody and you're lucky if three people have ever read it. You also think that criticising a book that's nearly forty years old is the kind of venture that's unlikely to be noticed by anyone.

So, to my incredible surprise, the author of the book in question posts a comment on my blogsite! At least I'm glad that I didn't say anything really mean-spirited or rude.

Anyway, the author in question is Mike Resnick, and the book I was referring to was A Goddess of Ganymede, a book he wrote very early in his career when, as he says, he was "young and hungry".

And if anyone wants to check it out; a link to my blog is in my sig...

 

[trancejeremy]

Oooh, he's one of my favorite authors.

 

[Desdichado]

I have to admit; I'm curious to see what he's written more recently now...

 

[trancejeremy]

He's an interesting writer, I think. A lot of his stories are set in a commmon future universe (he's got it mapped out loosely about 20,000 year into the future). But even within those, you never know what to expect in terms of style. For instance, the Widowmaker series tend to be more action orientated. But some are almost like fables. The Dark Lady is about Death looking for someone to fall in love with.

He's also not afraid to write unhappy endings. You never know if the main characters will survive the story, or if the villain will win in the end.

His most critically acclaimed stuff is about a planet colonized and ruled by old African ways. (I forget the name of it).

In a lot of ways, he's like Alan Dean Foster. Popular enough that he can sell enough books to get more contracts, but not hugely successful and sometimes has to do novelizations and such.

 

[ssampier]

I'd be honored actually. Would you be sheepish if you met them at a con and had a few minutes to talk?

The smart person googles him/her-self. I know I'm a no-body since my name is only mentioned in forum posting

 

[jonesy]

His most critically acclaimed stuff is about a planet colonized and ruled by old African ways. (I forget the name of it).

Kirinyaga. All of the stories can be found compiled in the book called Kirinyaga: A Tale of Utopia.

 

[DM_Matt]

The smart person googles him/her-self.

An even smarter person sets a Google Alert for himself, which emails him whenever a new mantion of his name appears. Said author may very well have had that service.

 

[ssampier]

An even smarter person sets a Google Alert for himself, which emails him whenever a new mantion of his name appears. Said author may very well have had that service.

I did not know such things existed.

Nice being a no-body.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Kirinyaga. All of the stories can be found compiled in the book called Kirinyaga: A Tale of Utopia.

A couple of those Kirinyaga tales are in another collection of his

"Would the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please turn off the Sun?"
which includes "HIS AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE FICTION STORY"

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'm not sure why this thread was resurrected, but I never saw it at the time, so I'm glad

Resnick's one of my buy-on-sight authors ever since I read Tales of the Galactic Midway.

Which is why I always thought it was so cool that the main character in Kirinyaga has my name!

-Hyp.