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More options Oct 22 1997, 3:00 am

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From: eyebr...@interpath.com

Date: 1997/10/22

Subject: Re: TAFF Auction Here

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In article <tnh-2210972006350...@tnh.dialup.access.net>, t...@panix.com (T

Nielsen Hayden) wrote:
> In article <eyebrown-2110971131380...@asheville-065.interpath.net>,
> eyebr...@interpath.com wrote:

> > *Black Body*? By H.C. Turk? Villard 1989? The witch novel with that
> > immortal opening: "When I slid in my baby slime between my supine mother's
> > legs, I did not comprehend the expression of her accompanying friends
> > ..."? I thought I was the only person who knew about this one, thought
> > admittedly I lead a fannishly sheltered life.

> That very same, that stupefyingly bad book. How did you come across it?

The publisher sent it to me, unsolicited. That very day I'd just received
a letter from Joan Gordon (well-known feminist academic critic, for you
lurkers) expressing a desire to write a book review for me, and could I
send her a book? Black Body had a fairly attractive package, and the flap
copy *did* promise a "tour de force" which was "beautifully written" and
featured "one of the most memorable heroines of contemporary fiction". So
off it went.

Joan wrote me that review ("I must admit that I never finished this novel.
Perhaps great things occur in the last few hundred pages, but the few
hundred pages I read were too agonizing for me to continue the
search."--SFE #6). However I believe the task was a pretty painful
experience for her. At any rate, it has been a number of years since I
heard from her. Oh well ...

Steve Brown

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