Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty Norville novel)

[Tim McDaniel]

Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty Norville novel)

Just came out.

Not much I can say about this without getting spoilery. I think its
quality and style is up there with the rest of the series.

--
Tim McDaniel, tm...@panix.com

[Brian M. Scott]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:51:38 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
<tm...@panix.com> wrote
in<news:mpjt3a$t4a$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
rec.arts.sf.written:

> Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty Norville
> novel)

> Just came out.

For most of us, I suspect, it will be out on Tuesday.

> Not much I can say about this without getting spoilery.
> I think its quality and style is up there with the rest
> of the series.

Well, you could mention that it concludes the entire
series.

Brian
--
It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their
holes to root for sandtatties. The waves whispered
rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,
haggisss.

[Tim McDaniel]

In article <127c824f6y3nj.26v2yfeue5s3$.d...@40tude.net>,

Brian M. Scott <b.s...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:51:38 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
><tm...@panix.com> wrote
>in<news:mpjt3a$t4a$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
>rec.arts.sf.written:
>
>> Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty Norville
>> novel)
>
>> Just came out.
>
>For most of us, I suspect, it will be out on Tuesday.
>
>> Not much I can say about this without getting spoilery.
>> I think its quality and style is up there with the rest
>> of the series.
>

>Well, you could mention that it [redacted]

Which I considered to be a major spoiler
(and trying to minimize further spoilers here for those who, like me,
have little self-control. Of course I am being overpicky by redacting
even what you've already posted.)

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So, not as satisfactory as I'd have liked.

And I just realized that the above is encoded in a Caesar alphabet.
How very apt.

--
Tim McDaniel, tm...@panix.com

[Brian M. Scott]

On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:33:50 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
<tm...@panix.com> wrote
in<news:mplrau$jjv$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
rec.arts.sf.written:

> In article <127c824f6y3nj.26v2yfeue5s3$.d...@40tude.net>,
> Brian M. Scott <b.s...@csuohio.edu> wrote:

>>On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:51:38 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
>><tm...@panix.com> wrote
>>in<news:mpjt3a$t4a$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
>>rec.arts.sf.written:

>>> Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty
>>> Norville novel)

>>> Just came out.

>>For most of us, I suspect, it will be out on Tuesday.

>>> Not much I can say about this without getting spoilery.
>>> I think its quality and style is up there with the
>>> rest of the series.

>>Well, you could mention that it [redacted]

> Which I considered to be a major spoiler

Really? I’m not sure that I’ve seen any mention of the
book that *didn’t* include that information.

[...]

[David Johnston]

On 8/2/2015 1:52 PM, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:33:50 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
> <tm...@panix.com> wrote
> in<news:mplrau$jjv$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
> rec.arts.sf.written:
>
>> In article <127c824f6y3nj.26v2yfeue5s3$.d...@40tude.net>,
>> Brian M. Scott <b.s...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
>
>>> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:51:38 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
>>> <tm...@panix.com> wrote
>>> in<news:mpjt3a$t4a$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
>>> rec.arts.sf.written:
>
>>>> Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty
>>>> Norville novel)
>
>>>> Just came out.
>
>>> For most of us, I suspect, it will be out on Tuesday.
>
>>>> Not much I can say about this without getting spoilery.
>>>> I think its quality and style is up there with the
>>>> rest of the series.
>
>>> Well, you could mention that it [redacted]
>
>> Which I considered to be a major spoiler
>
> Really? I’m not sure that I’ve seen any mention of the
> book that *didn’t* include that information.
>

It's kind of implied by the title.

[David DeLaney]

On 2015-08-02, Brian M. Scott <b.s...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
> Tim McDaniel <tm...@panix.com> wrote

>> Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty Norville novel)
>
>> Just came out.
>
> For most of us, I suspect, it will be out on Tuesday.

It was out on Saturday in my Barnes & Noble, in paperback. I have not yet read
it; I expect to do so Soon (tm).

Dave
--
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It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://gatekeeper.vic.com/~dbd/ -net.legends/Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

[Lynn McGuire]

On 8/2/2015 10:40 AM, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 01:51:38 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
> <tm...@panix.com> wrote
> in<news:mpjt3a$t4a$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
> rec.arts.sf.written:
>
>> Carrie Vaughn, _Kitty Saves the World_ (a Kitty Norville
>> novel)
>
>> Just came out.
>
> For most of us, I suspect, it will be out on Tuesday.
>
>> Not much I can say about this without getting spoilery.
>> I think its quality and style is up there with the rest
>> of the series.
>
> Well, you could mention that it concludes the entire
> series.
>
> Brian

I hate it when a good series ends on a high note. Why not stretch it out to the bitter end?

Lynn

[Tim McDaniel]

In article <mplt5t$l9p$1...@dont-email.me>,

I've gone back and looked at the back cover. I had unwontedly avoided
looking at it. It doesn't mention that.

>It's kind of implied by the title.

For reasons that I explained in the ROT13 text, I can think of ways in
which it would not have been, though it turns out the back cover
excluded my notions. There could also have been more denouement, as I
mentioned.

There's the (bad) precedent of Anita Blake, where she arguably saved
the world several books ago (killed a multi-book baddie), and later
killed off #2, but the series keeps being churned out.

Then again, this is Carrie Vaughn. A few books back, I thought it was
going to be the first book in a series: there's the plucky female
urban fantasy protagonist, there's the myserious male sidekick,
there's the animal, they'll travel the world looking for and defending
[blah] ... and then it all blows up.

--
Tim McDaniel, tm...@panix.com

[Robert Carnegie]

On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 06:05:27 UTC+1, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> In article <mplt5t$l9p$1...@dont-email.me>,
> David Johnston <Da...@block.net> wrote:
> >On 8/2/2015 1:52 PM, Brian M. Scott wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:33:50 +0000 (UTC), Tim McDaniel
> >> <tm...@panix.com> wrote
> >> in<news:mplrau$jjv$1...@reader1.panix.com> in
> >> rec.arts.sf.written:
> >>
> >>> In article <127c824f6y3nj.26v2yfeue5s3$.d...@40tude.net>,
> >>> Brian M. Scott <b.s...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
> >>>> Well, you could mention that it [redacted]
> >>
> >>> Which I considered to be a major spoiler
> >>
> >> Really? I'm not sure that I've seen any mention of the
> >> book that *didn't* include that information.
>
> I've gone back and looked at the back cover. I had unwontedly avoided
> looking at it. It doesn't mention that.
>
> >It's kind of implied by the title.
>
> For reasons that I explained in the ROT13 text, I can think of ways in
> which it would not have been, though it turns out the back cover
> excluded my notions. There could also have been more denouement, as I
> mentioned.
>
> There's the (bad) precedent of Anita Blake, where she arguably saved
> the world several books ago (killed a multi-book baddie), and later
> killed off #2, but the series keeps being churned out.

I think _Kitty Doesn't Save the World_ would be the last
book in a series, although, I didn't save the world today
and I expect to be able to discuss these topics tomorrow.

I think some here have preferred to ignore Harry Harrison's
"Stainless Steel Rat" books after the third, which is indeed
_The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World_ (right?), but,
the fourth isn't so awful. Not worse than the third.

In comics <http://marvel.wikia.com/Howard_the_Duck_Vol_1_24>
is ""Where Do You Go -- What Do You Do -- The Night After
You Saved The Universe?" and the story does carry on
in its more typically downbeat style.

[David Johnston]

Unlike Kitty, the Stainless Steel Rat had more than one world to
potentially save.

[William December Starr]

In article <04cb9602-ae4a-4cba...@googlegroups.com>,

Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> said:

> I think some here have preferred to ignore Harry Harrison's
> "Stainless Steel Rat" books after the third, which is indeed
> _The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World_ (right?),

Yes. Although it turned out that "for about a month" could have
been appended to the title. :-)

> but, the fourth isn't so awful. Not worse than the third.

That would be THE STAINLESS STEEL RAT WANTS YOU!, the one in which
he finally solved the Gray Men problem. I wasn't initially planning
to reread any beyond those that were in the SFBC omnibus edition of
the original three novels, but now I think I'll do this one too,
sooner or later.

-- wds

[William December Starr]

In article <mpuvrn$krp$3...@dont-email.me>,

DiGriz was also saving the last 33,000 or so years of galactic
history[1], so at least technically he too was saving more than one
world.

-----------
*1: DiGriz's native time era was in the 346th century, Gregorian.
The tampering with history, albeit subtle, which he had set out
to undo came from 1975 A.D., though the trail subsequently took
him to 1804 and then the year 3000.

-- wds