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02-08-10 : David Louis Edelman Completes Jump 225

'Geosynchron'

When it comes to reading trilogies that have a three-book story arc (and this is not always the case), I'm gun-shy. Why? Simon & Schuster UK, that's why. I remember picking up Brian Stableford's 'The Werewolves of London' in 1990. It was a wonderfully well-written proto-steampunk novel of supernatural conspiracy, and quickly followed up in 1991 by 'The Angel of Pain.'

The first two novels were issued in lovely hardcovers, with great dust-jacket artwork. The second novel even told us the name of the final volume of the trilogy — 'The Carnival of Destruction.' I could hardly wait for it to come out.

But I waited.

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"I'm still screwed up, but not nearly as badly as I was."

David Drake

I first encountered David Drake's Lovecraftian fiction in 'New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos', edited by Ramsey Campbell where I read "Than Curse the Darkness." I enjoyed the story and I enjoyed the jokes, but didn't have much sense of the author until I heard him speak at the World Fantasy Convention on a panel with Jeff VanderMeer.
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The Agony Column for February 14, 2010
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