From: Meltsner, Kenneth (Kenneth.Meltsner@ca.com)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 07:11:31 PDT
The Ash books are almost all out in the US -- #4 is expected in a month or so. They were published by Avon and slightly re-written to cope with the split into 4 bindings. The Ash hardcover is listed at 17 pounds, which means it might be worth buying it from the UK instead of waiting for another 6ドル.50 paperback.
Of interest to geeks is Gentle's novella _To his own devices_, in the British _Scholars and Soldiers_, that involves hypertexts and her favorite, recurring Architect as well as computer-brain interfaces, artificial intelligences and a repressive British government. It's worth tracking down, poss. at Amazon.co.uk, since the same volume also has stories linked to _Rats and Gargoyles_ and _The Architecture of Desire_. [Note: My collection's at home and I'm at work -- I may have some of the titles wrong.]
Ken Meltsner
Link Architect
Computer Associates
-----Original Message-----
From: Eirikur Hallgrimsson [mailto:eh@mad.scientist.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 11:19 PM
To: fork@xent.com
Subject: Re: Mary Gentle [was Re: The Armageddon Rag]
On 2000年10月13日, Bill Humphries wrote:
> It's _Ash: Or the Secret History_ by Mary Gentle.
I was so sad to discover (via Amazon) that this is not the story of
Ash (of the housewares dept.) from the film "Army of Darkness."
A of D being pretty cool for its hand-done stop-motion work. It was
re-titled from Evil Dead N (I forget the N) because of the
time-travel bit. It strikes me that I haven't seen a good
evil-dead-genre film in a while. A of D has this Harryhausen-level
animation in spots, but is basically a low-budget horror flick in
which a clerk from Walmart or somesuch is thrust "backward in time"
into a generic barbarian fantasy world. It's pretty funny, though
some parts of it seem to have been intended as being as serious as
generic barbarian fantasy ever gets. I refuse to take seriously any
generic barbarian fantasy that doesn't star either Sandahl Bergman or
the Barbarian Brothers. I've actually seen the good-buddy trucker
film in which the Barbarian Brothers look quite out place and in need
of a broadaxe or two.
Eirikur
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