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     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.123.90 |
Looking forward to it. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.178.110 |
Me too! The last message I saw on it (from Christopher) hinted that there would be more than one volume, which makes sense, if it's to be a 'complete' edition. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.61.140 |
Are folk aware that Lisa Tuttle is attending WHC '10 in Brighton? She lives in Cornwall. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.123.90 |
Yes - really great to know that she will be there! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.178.110 |
I'd love to go to that. I've never been to a convention. I expect a lot of folk here will be attending? | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
I'm so anxious for this collection (or collections, as the case may be) to be released that it's starting to hurt. Lisa Tuttle has written some of the finest horror stories on this or any other planet. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.123.90 |
Agreed. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
That's true, Richard, but I think the horror writers of Yuggoth deserve to be better known. Admittedly they're out of their faces half the time. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
I'm very excited about this, too (though not as creepily as Richard, apparently). Chris at Ash Tree said somewhere that he's working on the layouts for the first volume now, so I'm hopeful the wait isn't too much longer! | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Joel: The Yuggothic school slipped my mind. I won't even make the groan-inducing joke about how a Yuggothian may not be a great writer, but is still a fungi to hang out with. (Okay, I will make the joke...Thank you, thank you! I'll be headlining here at Ramsey's until Wednesday. Be sure to try the seafood platter.) Simon: Brother, if you think *that* is creepy, just wait 'til you hear how I've been...ahem..."prepping myself" for Cold to the Touch... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.16.79.198 |
Actually, I hear the literary scene on Yuggoth lately is mushrooming. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
The Complete Short Supernatural Tales of Lisa Tuttle. I think I heard that it will be out for WHC Brighton from Ash Tree Press? Has anyone got the TOC and is it in two volumes? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
I've just facebooked her - keep you posted. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.9.135 |
Speaking of: I just read "A Spaceship Made Of Stone," from a DAW best-of sci-fi collection from 1981. An excellent as usual Tuttle story, that though billed as sci-fi, and not included in her various horror collections; could definitely be read as a very different, but quite definite, horror story. And, a story that - if published now? Could, could, read the right (wrong?) way, be quite explosively controversial, at least here in the U.S. - even today (especially today!), almost 30 years later.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
I loved that book. She seems to write differently now; good, but some sort of edge is missing. That said I've not read too much of her new stuff so should probably hold my tongue. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
I just asked her - she isn't sure if it will be out in time for WHC. | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Ally, I know you are a huge Lisa Tuttle fan so you'll be shocked to hear that (like Fritz Leiber until last month) I don't believe I've read a single word by her! Can you put her in perspective for me? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
In my opinion she's as great as Robert Aickman and Ramsey. I had to borrow A NEST OF NIGHTMARES from Craig to read some of her stories. Wonderful collection. If you have Best New Horror 16 MY DEATH is in that one. I'm eagerly awaiting the collected works from Ash Tree. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.254.88 |
I had to borrow A NEST OF NIGHTMARES from Craig to read some of her stories. And I don't appreciate the strawberry jam staining the back cover by the way, Ally... or - er... that was strawberry jam, wasn't it?...   Stephen: Tuttle's style is not anything like Aickman's, Ramsey's, or Leiber's, let's be clear - they have, to me, very distinct writing styles. Tuttle's is decidedly absent of such styling, a simple and unadorned prose, closer to the Hemingway end of the scale rather than the (Henry) James end. The story to start with, is "The Horse Lord" - might as well get a killer of an ss right out of the gate! | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Craig, you make her sound like Patricia Highsmith - one of my absolute very favourite authors for the apparent "simplicity" of her prose that masks one of the darkest imaginations in literature imho. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.10.77 |
That reminds me - I've got a book to send back to you, Craig. I'm off to get the toaster out.  Yes, of course they have different writing styles - all great though. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Yes - style-less. I've been trying to do that with what I'm doing now, go back and cut out all the fat and fuss. Or at least limit it. I've cut out so much description, tried keeping it down to the tiniest but clearest couple of words. Readers really do fill that stuff in. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Sad thing is, her sf tales are every bit as good and eerie as her horror. Oh - Craig said that, didn't he... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.162.63.33 |
Tony, one of the things I loved about your stuff was some of the phrasing and unique descriptions. I hope you haven't cut too much out. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Gary - that is so kind. Thank you so much for that. The thing is, the early part of this book, if I kept it in, would sort of show a trick before it's been performed. I sort of want the style to be a character, creep its way in slowly. I'm into my third year of writing this book and it's not even that long. I'm hesitating over every word.  | ||
| Stephen Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
It sounds wonderful, Tony - and no doubt is if the story I read is anything to go by! | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
Don't - I don't even know what it's about! | ||
| Matthew_fell (Matthew_fell) Username: Matthew_fell Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.190.19 |
I have some final details to sort out with Lisa, but the plans at the moment are that there will be three volumes in the series we are planning. Much as I would have liked, the launch will be a little later than Brighton, though I'm sure that we'll have some more details available there. Steve Jones is earmarked to write the introduction for the first volume. Christopher | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.240.106 |
Three volumes? Wow. That's me skint, then. These promise to be amazing books. I can't wait. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.23.22 |
>Gulp< | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.109.130.135 |
Want want want. Not I just have to find some money. Kidney anyone? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.166.84 |
I'm glad to hear the Lisa Tuttle collection will be a multi-volume affair, and look forward to seeing the contents (and reading them - she's been one of my favourite writers since I read her first collection back in the eighties). She's written dozens of great horror/fantasy stories, many of which are in her collections (A Nest of Nightmares. A Spaceship Built of Stone, Memories of the Body, Ghosts and Other Lovers, My Pathology), but there are also many scattered through various anthologies and magazines (I've been tracking these down for the last fifteen years or so). There is a bibliography of her short fiction online somewhere, listing collected and non-collected work. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.166.84 |
And let's not forget her novels: Gabriel, Lost Futures, The Pillow Friend, The Mysteries, The Silver Bough... she's written a lot of good stuff aside from A Nest of Nightmares. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.23.254 |
As Lisa is a GOH at Fantasycon this year I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the first in the three will be launched there. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 142.179.8.113 |
Indeed, Allyson, the plan is to launch the first of Lisa's ATP collections at Fantasycon in November. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 193.109.254.20 |
Excellent news! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.47.23.254 |
September, Barbara...I know that was just a slip of the pen :>) Looking forward to getting the first in the collection, then. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 142.179.8.113 |
Yes, September, not November. More coffee is clearly needed. . . . |