So I picked up vol 21 of this recently. I think it actually came out last year. I was sad when Marion Zimmer Bradley passed thinking this series would go away, too. Diana Paxson brought it back. Has a little different flavor with Paxson editing it, but I still enjoy it, which is good, cuz though I enjoyed the Chicks in Chainmail that I read, it just wasn't the same as this series.
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Re: Sword and Sorceress
Thu, November 24, 2005 - 3:57 PMDiana often helped Marion with it, without getting any credit for it. I don't see too much difference. There is always a little bit of 'theme' difference. Hopefully it will have done well enough, that the publishers will let Diana continue to edit and keep Marion's series alive.
I love the Chicks in Chainmail series. You have to look at it differently than S & S. C in C has more of the Xena 'type' characters. Not much magic and sorcery involved.
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Re: Sword and Sorceress
Fri, November 25, 2005 - 2:28 AMI understand the differences in the anthologies, but I don't think the writing in the C in C series is as good, meaning that fewer of them were really compelling reads, and I don't think the standards are as high.
I know Paxson helped Zimmer Bradley with series, as a fan I followed that, but there's still a different flavor this time out. Zimmer Bradley would never have opened the anthology with a poem and I didn't consider it a very good poem, either.
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Re: Sword and Sorceress
Thu, November 24, 2005 - 8:09 PMSword and Sorceress
So I picked up vol 21 of this recently. I think it actually came out last year. I was sad when Marion Zimmer Bradley passed thinking this series would go away, too. Diana Paxson brought it back.
Ok, no doubt I will have to talk some people on my Yahoo group into participating in this sort of thing. We could re these books and talk about them
