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heimdallr
19:12 / 02.04.04
Hi all!
New here, wondered if anyone's read the Wraeththu books by Storm Constantine, or inded any of her books?
 
 
aluhks SMASH!
23:51 / 02.04.04
I'm a huge fan of Wraeththu.

I've read some of her other books, and while they're all beautifully written, none of the stories or worlds seemed quite as compelling.
 
 
trouser the trouserian
04:33 / 03.04.04
I've read loads of her stuff (went to her Grissecon Convention last year). Have to admit I prefer her early stuff (i.e. wraeththu trilogy, Hermetech) to the later novels - didn't like the Grigori books at all.
I've started on the new Wraeththu trilogy, but can't quite make up my mind about whether I like it or not., although the RPG sounds interesting.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:08 / 03.04.04
There's a new Wraeththu trilogy?

I loved 'em- not sure if I'd like them as much as I did in my goth late teens, but I thought they were great.

My favourite Constantine is "Burying The Shadow"... that's an excellent book.
 
 
trouser the trouserian
10:10 / 03.04.04
Stoatie
Yes, there's a new Wraeththu trilogy - The Wraiths of Will & Pleasure is the first volume - details here

It's kind of filling in some of the background from the original trilogy - like what became of Flick, for example.

Oh yeah, and Storm has 'revised' the original trilogy as well.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
10:36 / 03.04.04
OK. Buying that.

I liked the Grigori ones... but for some reason the third part really didn't grab me, and I never finished it. The first two I thought were excellent, though. Must try the lot again at some point.
 
 
heimdallr
16:53 / 03.04.04
glad to see I'm not the only one appreciating her work. Always felt kind of drawn to the idea of becoming har, I know perverse!!
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
18:42 / 03.04.04
The Wraethru books, Hermetech and the Magravandias trilogy are the titles worth reading, the Gregori books start with a good first book but it's turned to poop by book three, Thin Air was slight and the rest predictable goth fantasy bollocks.

And her real name is Susan apparently.
 
 
aluhks SMASH!
21:20 / 03.04.04
can anyone give the rundown on hermetch? what's the idea behind it? that kind of thing.
 
 
trouser the trouserian
04:21 / 05.04.04
Has anyone read The Thorn Boy collection?
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
17:20 / 05.04.04
Hermetech- near future world, government has collapsed so everything is like the green field at Glastonbury, for ever. Ari leaves her home to move in with a group of travellers and finds out that she's a legacy of the experiments of her late father into the power unleashed at the point of orgasm.

It's a jolly and pretentious book. There's a big twist that is blatantly obvious from the start but I liked the character of the genetically altered intersexual Zambia Crevecoeur. It's pagan sci-fi, with lots of "I remember when it was all towns round here" action.
 
 
trouser the trouserian
04:22 / 06.04.04
I thought as post-apocalyptic wastelands go, Hermetech's sounded not half bad. Anyone read Calenture ? More baroque than her earlier stuff - floating cities, people turning into crystals - the characters finding out they are "fictions".

One thing that Storm led drop at Grissecon last year was that Burying the Shadow got written 'cos her publishers had decided that 'vampires' were the flavour of the month.
 
 
Sax
11:43 / 08.07.04
I'm going to hate myself for jumping the gun here, and karma will dictate that it all falls down the toilet the minute I hit "post reply", but it looks like Storm Constantine's Immanion Press is going to publish my first novel...
 
 
Kit-Cat Club
12:09 / 08.07.04
Is that why you're burying this post in Books?

Congratulations! Hope it goes ahead. You must let us know when it hits the shops... and then we can start a thread on it.
 
 
Sax
12:44 / 08.07.04
Don't worry, I will. If it hits the shops. I shouldn't have said anything. I've jinxed it now. I should have just dug a hole in the ground, shouted into it, and filled it in again.

Pretend I said nothing.
 
 
Madman in the ruins.
18:11 / 08.07.04
The Grigori stuff is great, But it does suffer from a major veering change of pace and plot in book 2-3.

I think I'll dig out Hermetch agaon and give it another go.
 
  
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