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Recent Additions: Holdstock and Jones
This week has been a bit hectic with the Holidays coming on so we don’t have a lot of additions to talk about but what we lack in quantity we make up for in quality.
Robert Holdstock passed away last month unexpectedly at the age of 61. From all accounts he was a genuine and lovely man in life and an excellent writer with a loyal following. There are some nice articles about his life and writings including this one from David Barnett in The Guardian.
Holdstock is perhaps best known for his multiple award-winning Mythago Cycle. The first book, Mythago Wood, won the British Science Fiction Association award in 1984 and the World Fantasy Award in 1985. He followed that up with Lavondyss which also won the BSFA award in 1988. Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn, book 6 of the series, was nominated for the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Award in 1999. We’ve just completed the cycle with the addition of The Bone Forest, The Hollowing, Merlin’s Wood and the last volume, Avilion, which came out just this year.
Last week we completed a bunch of trilogies including Gwyneth Jones’s Aleutian Trilogy. This week Gwyneth makes another appearance with her Bold As Love Cycle. The first 3 books in the series all had nominations starting with Bold as Love which won the 2002 Arthur C. Clarke Award and also garnered nominations from the BSFA in 2001 and the BFS in 2002. Castles Made of Sand (2002 BSFA nominee) and Midnight Lamp (2003 BSFA and 2004 Clarke nominee), books 2 and 3 respectively, have been joined by 2005’s Band of Gypsies and Rainbow Bridge from 2006.
These two series would make excellent gifts for any SF/F fan you’ve got on your last minute list… including yourself. Happy reading.
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