Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
I do remember the sign language, and I'm going to dig out the series and re-read it as soon as I finish what I'm reading now. To answer your question on his later works, still about the same. I don't buy them anymore, just check them out at the library. -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Fri, 5 Jun 2009 04:00:24 + (UTC) From : Keith Johnson To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I remember that! Also, remember that secret sign language just about everyone in Silk's country used? You know what though? I enjoyed the dry humour and with that populated the books, but after the Belgariad and the Mallorean, I tired of the writing style. I felt as if the flow was the same, the sense of humour got a little stale, and I quit reading. Never did read the later works to see if they were any good... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 7:38:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Oh, yes. And we can't leave out my favorite character in the Belgariad, Silk. He had that one great scene at the climax of one of the books (can't for the life of me remember which one), where he's fighting his personal nemesis, a fellow spy whom some in the world considered to be a better hand-to-hand combatant than Silk. The two begin to fight, but we never get the entire fight, because Eddings decided to cut away to what Garion's fight in the dungeons of the castle they were all in. After resolving that, someone asks, "Where's Silk?" Remembering, they all rush back to the highest tower where Silk and his nemesis were fighting, finding Silk by himself, battered, bloody and winded. They ask him where the other man was and Silk, after catching his breath, gasps, "Learning to fly." Someone asks him i! f he was successful and Silk replies, "Do bounces count?" -----[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:58:49 + (UTC) >From : Keith Johnson To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I liked the way the voice of the Prophecy had a dry, sarcastic wit when it spoke to Belgarion. Or how Aldur's stone would glow with joy whenever Belgarion or Errand would touch it. Belgarath was cool too... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:05:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies :-( His Belgariad series was the impetus for me to try my hand at writing fantasy, because of its twisted-in-a-fun-way view on the genre. Requiescat in pace, good sir. -----[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:43:12 -0400 >From : "brent wodehouse" To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com :-( Brent "Amy Harlib" wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
I remember that! Also, remember that secret sign language just about everyone in Silk's country used? You know what though? I enjoyed the dry humour and with that populated the books, but after the Belgariad and the Mallorean, I tired of the writing style. I felt as if the flow was the same, the sense of humour got a little stale, and I quit reading. Never did read the later works to see if they were any good... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 7:38:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Oh, yes. And we can't leave out my favorite character in the Belgariad, Silk. He had that one great scene at the climax of one of the books (can't for the life of me remember which one), where he's fighting his personal nemesis, a fellow spy whom some in the world considered to be a better hand-to-hand combatant than Silk. The two begin to fight, but we never get the entire fight, because Eddings decided to cut away to what Garion's fight in the dungeons of the castle they were all in. After resolving that, someone asks, "Where's Silk?" Remembering, they all rush back to the highest tower where Silk and his nemesis were fighting, finding Silk by himself, battered, bloody and winded. They ask him where the other man was and Silk, after catching his breath, gasps, "Learning to fly." Someone asks him i! f he was successful and Silk replies, "Do bounces count?" ---------[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:58:49 + (UTC) >From : Keith Johnson To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I liked the way the voice of the Prophecy had a dry, sarcastic wit when it spoke to Belgarion. Or how Aldur's stone would glow with joy whenever Belgarion or Errand would touch it. Belgarath was cool too... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:05:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies :-( His Belgariad series was the impetus for me to try my hand at writing fantasy, because of its twisted-in-a-fun-way view on the genre. Requiescat in pace, good sir. -----[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:43:12 -0400 >From : "brent wodehouse" To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com :-( Brent "Amy Harlib" wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
Oh, yes. And we can't leave out my favorite character in the Belgariad, Silk. He had that one great scene at the climax of one of the books (can't for the life of me remember which one), where he's fighting his personal nemesis, a fellow spy whom some in the world considered to be a better hand-to-hand combatant than Silk. The two begin to fight, but we never get the entire fight, because Eddings decided to cut away to what Garion's fight in the dungeons of the castle they were all in. After resolving that, someone asks, "Where's Silk?" Remembering, they all rush back to the highest tower where Silk and his nemesis were fighting, finding Silk by himself, battered, bloody and winded. They ask him where the other man was and Silk, after catching his breath, gasps, "Learning to fly." Someone asks him if he was successful and Silk replies, "Do bounces count?" -----[ Received Mail Content ]------ Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:58:49 + (UTC) From : Keith Johnson To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com I liked the way the voice of the Prophecy had a dry, sarcastic wit when it spoke to Belgarion. Or how Aldur's stone would glow with joy whenever Belgarion or Errand would touch it. Belgarath was cool too... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:05:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies :-( His Belgariad series was the impetus for me to try my hand at writing fantasy, because of its twisted-in-a-fun-way view on the genre. Requiescat in pace, good sir. ---------[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:43:12 -0400 >From : "brent wodehouse" To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com :-( Brent "Amy Harlib" wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
I liked the way the voice of the Prophecy had a dry, sarcastic wit when it spoke to Belgarion. Or how Aldur's stone would glow with joy whenever Belgarion or Errand would touch it. Belgarath was cool too... - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 4:05:06 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies :-( His Belgariad series was the impetus for me to try my hand at writing fantasy, because of its twisted-in-a-fun-way view on the genre. Requiescat in pace, good sir. -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:43:12 -0400 >From : "brent wodehouse" To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com :-( Brent "Amy Harlib" wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
:-( His Belgariad series was the impetus for me to try my hand at writing fantasy, because of its twisted-in-a-fun-way view on the genre. Requiescat in pace, good sir. -[ Received Mail Content ]-- Subject : Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies Date : Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:43:12 -0400 From : "brent wodehouse" To : scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com :-( Brent "Amy Harlib" wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQdwk8Yntds
Re: [scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
:-( Brent "Amy Harlib" wrote: >[ mailto:ahar...@earthlink.net ]ahar...@earthlink.net >Forwarding. > > > >[Image] > >"I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." >David Eddings - author, friend. > > >Issue 187.5 - June 2009 >19 years online (& counting) > > > >NEWS EXTRA June 2009 > >I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly >large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll >make an exception for David. > >One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field >many worlds poorer. > >Stephen Hunt >June 3rd 2009 > >[ http://sfcrowsnest.c.topica.com/maam8uJabQHYfa4S6lHc/ ]David Eddings >passes away >Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. >Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors >on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. >His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way >for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. >
[scifinoir2] Fw: Fantasy author David Eddings dies
SFcrowsnest Monthly Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine ahar...@earthlink.net Forwarding. "I'm enough of a pessimist that I'm going to continue writing fantasy." David Eddings - author, friend. Issue 187.5 - June 2009 19 years online (& counting) NEWS EXTRA June 2009 I don't normally do one-shot news updates because of the eye-wateringly large cost of e-mailing the whole SFcrowsnest subscriber base, but I'll make an exception for David. One of the great ones has gone and his death leaves the fantasy field many worlds poorer. Stephen Hunt June 3rd 2009 David Eddings passes away Fantasy author David Eddings has sadly passed away, aged 77, last night. Best-selling and popular are often epithets that are applied to authors on writers' press releases, but in David's case, it was well deserved. His commercial success, says fantasy author Stephen Hunt, paved the way for a whole generation of doorstopper-sized fantasy series. -- Stephen Hunt's third fantasy novel set in the Jackelian world... The Rise of The Iron Moon From the author of The Court of the Air and The Kingdom Beyond the Waves comes a thrilling new adventure set in the same Victorian-style world. Born into captivity as a product of the Royal Breeding House, friendless orphan Purity Drake suddenly finds herself on the run with a foreign vagrant from the North after accidentally killing one of her guards. Her strange rescuer claims he is on the run himself from terrible forces who mean to enslave the Kingdom of Jackals as they conquered his own nation. Purity doubts his story, until reports begin to filter through from Jackals' neighbours of the terrible Army of Shadows, marching across the continent and sweeping all before them. But there's more to Purity than meets the eye. As Jackals girds itself for war against an army of near-unkillable beasts serving an ancient evil with a terrible secret, it soon becomes clear that their only hope is a strange little royalist girl and the last, desperate plan of an escaped slave. Available now on Amazon - click here. -- Stephen Hunt's The Kingdom Beyond the Waves - NOW out in paperback (UK) A deadly obsession, a lunatic steamman, a u-boat full of convict sailors. You're sailing to your death ... Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilisation of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war and disease -- tempering the race of man's baser instincts by the creation of the perfect pacifist society. It is an obsession that is to cost her dearly. She returns home to the Kingdom of Jackals from her latest archaeological misadventure to discover that the university council has finally stripped her of her position in retaliation for her heretical research. Without official funding, Amelia has no choice but to accept the offer of patronage from the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide, the fiercely intelligent and incredibly wealthy Abraham Quest. He has an ancient crystal-book that suggests the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli. Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into the dark heart of the jungle, blackmailing her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying her along the huge river of the Shedarkshe on his ancient u-boat. With an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of female mercenaries on board and a lunatic steamman safari hunter acting as their guide, Amelia's luck can hardly get any worse. But she's as yet unaware that her quest for the perfect society is about to bring her own world to the brink of destruction! Hardback http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Beyond-Waves-Stephen-Hunt/dp/0007232209 Paperback http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingdom-Beyond-Waves-Stephen-Hunt/dp/0007232217 Science fiction and fantasy events upcoming shortly: ApolloCon 2009 26/06/2009 - 28/06/2009 United States - Houston Science Fiction Con Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins 05/06/2009 - 05/07/2009 United States - Various Cinema release Finncon 2009 10/07/2009 - 12/07/2009 Finland - Helsinki Science Fiction Con Ancient City Con III 18/07/2009 - 19/07/2009 United States - Jacksonville Science Fiction Con Find the full list of cons and events over here. -- Stephen Hunt's
