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Reged: Feb 16 2004
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This thread is for comments about Into Something Rich and Strange, by Barth Anderson.
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merle
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Reged: Dec 23 2004
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I adore the momentum in this story, the way you're pulled in from line 1 until the end. There's a lot left unexplained, which gives the setting a detailed richness and capacity for quirkiness that I enjoy. The only thing that breaks the story is a bit too much of Danish at the end (and I understand German and Swedish so it's not just that I'm too lazy to look it up) which is only a slight discordant in the whole work. Not only does it read well, it's fun to do so. I think this story is even better than the previous one: the character gets more of a chance to develop because he's not quite on a quest this time. I'd love to see more of the author's work - and with luck I might.
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Jed Hartman
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Reged: Oct 15 2003
Posts: 151
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Glad you liked it!
We also published another of Barth's stories, "Alone in the House of Mims," earlier this year. Though that wasn't a Bringweather story. You can find more of his short fiction in a wide variety of fine periodicals and anthologies and chapbooks: Asimov's; Talebones; On Spec; Say...; Flytrap; Rabid Transit; Polyphony; Alchemy; Scattered, Smothered, Covered; and Mojo: Conjure Stories. (For links to most of those, see an entry in his online journal from last week.) Oh, and you can read some of his other stories online for free: "The Parade of You" at the Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts Reading Room; "Lot 12A: The Feast of the Dead Manuscript" at Fantastic Metropolis; "We Stand on the Verge of Getting It On" at Fortean Bureau.
And if you want something longer, his novel The Patron Saint of Plagues will be published by Bantam Spectra sometime soon.
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