Thanks Glen and Brandon for a great year. Enjoyed the wrap-up episode.
First, I have to thank you for introducing me to Caitlin R. Keirnan. I'm still working my way through her Houses Under The Sea collection, in between other reading.
I also really enjoyed The Ebony Frame. It still flips me that this is the same author who wrote The Railway Children and other kids' books.
I recall reading Jack Vance's Dying Earth a while ago (like 30 years ago, in college). Like your discussion, about Turjan of Miir, I recall the setting as really interesting and saturated, but I don't really remember the actual stories.
Thanks so much for listening and for your comments throughout the year. We've gotten a lot of feedback about Jack Vance, and it seems that what people remember fondly and what was important were the later novels and not this early collection that we're going to work our way through as a series of short stories. So maybe I'll do those on Atoz some day.
I've also never read The Railway Children books but I'm considering picking them up now that I have a child to read them to. That might also make for a fun episode or two!
And Kiernan! Yes!!!!
I'm not familiar with the Railway Children but my wife (who's British) certainly is. Not sure what the comparison is. Railway Children sounds younger than say, the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, but not like Dr. Seuss little. Maybe Encyclopedia Jones or Judy Blume, that sort of thing.
@ktvician I had wondered what the connection with The Boxcar Children was, but there doesn't seem to be any except for maybe some light plagiarism.
Oh crap! I just realized he's Encyclopedia Brown, not Jones! In my defense, I probably read those books close to 45 years ago.