Meme and memory
Mar. 17th, 2005 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraVia athelind and hafoc
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
A cell phone rested on the counter beside a pad of hotel stationary. A woman appeared in the window dressed in a long gown of dark silk, and picked up the cell phone. She answered it without speaking and a moment later said, "I'm sorry. You've the wrong number."
Given that Andre Norton passed away today I wish that had been one of her books. Unfortunately "my" Norton collection is in the possession of my mother (who started it) and is therefore about one thousand miles away.
Andre Norton's Witch World books were what I read after finishing all the horse books in the local library. To this day those books influence how magic presents itself in my own worlds. My taste in science fantasy is undoubtedly the result of reading (and re-reading) dozens of her works. Beyond the magic of Witch World she created the magic of the Thassa (Moonsinger books), the Wyverns of Warlock, that of Simsa (a Forerunner born thousands of years after her race vanished from history), and several more that I can't recall without glancing at her titles. Her Free Traders often discovered long lost races and vanished civilizations, some even found the latest sanctuary of the People Under the Hills. People and animals often communicated as equals (Beast Master series most notably).
I think what I enjoyed most though was that she write so many different series and standalone novels that all fit into one universe spread over time and space. The Moonsinger partnered with a Free Trader and found the new land of Fairy at some point after the crew of the Solar Queen opened trade with the Salariki and before the Patrol was overrun and forced to the fringe of the galaxy, rediscovering the legendary home of the human race. Magic and starships weren't mutually exclusive and the animals on some frontier planet might just be the degenerate descendants of an advanced civilization.
athelind and hafoc1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
A cell phone rested on the counter beside a pad of hotel stationary. A woman appeared in the window dressed in a long gown of dark silk, and picked up the cell phone. She answered it without speaking and a moment later said, "I'm sorry. You've the wrong number."
Given that Andre Norton passed away today I wish that had been one of her books. Unfortunately "my" Norton collection is in the possession of my mother (who started it) and is therefore about one thousand miles away.
Andre Norton's Witch World books were what I read after finishing all the horse books in the local library. To this day those books influence how magic presents itself in my own worlds. My taste in science fantasy is undoubtedly the result of reading (and re-reading) dozens of her works. Beyond the magic of Witch World she created the magic of the Thassa (Moonsinger books), the Wyverns of Warlock, that of Simsa (a Forerunner born thousands of years after her race vanished from history), and several more that I can't recall without glancing at her titles. Her Free Traders often discovered long lost races and vanished civilizations, some even found the latest sanctuary of the People Under the Hills. People and animals often communicated as equals (Beast Master series most notably).
I think what I enjoyed most though was that she write so many different series and standalone novels that all fit into one universe spread over time and space. The Moonsinger partnered with a Free Trader and found the new land of Fairy at some point after the crew of the Solar Queen opened trade with the Salariki and before the Patrol was overrun and forced to the fringe of the galaxy, rediscovering the legendary home of the human race. Magic and starships weren't mutually exclusive and the animals on some frontier planet might just be the degenerate descendants of an advanced civilization.
