From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Diane Duane, _Door Into Fire_
Keywords: where can i get it?
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:12:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
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In article <3OCT199205195127@rosie.uh.edu>, st1rk@rosie.uh.edu (Maxwell, Darin) writes...
>I've got a friend who loaned me his copy of _Door Into Fire_ and
>_Door Into Shadow_. Another friend of mine read them and found 
>he had to own copies.  I understand people have waited a full 
>year to get copies in.  Does anyone know if these books are
>available any other way? Thanx in advance.

     THE SCIENCE-FICTION BOOKSTORE always has copies of 
     these two gems on the shelf.  That's how I got mine.
     They are in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, on Bleeker
     Street between Sullivan and Thompson.
     They do special orders and imports (though DOOR INTO
     SUNSET took seven months to get here!) and they do
     mail order.
     To get their number (I'm living in Buffalo at the moment,
     or I'd do it for you) dial (212) 555-1212 and give them
     the above location info.
     It should take less than a week for them to get the
     books to you, if you have a credit card.

>On another note, is anyone interested in discussing the works? 
>Since they are hard to find and many people may not have heard
>of them, let alone read them, maybe any discussion should be
>carried out over E-mail.(I'm new to the system so maybe I'm
>mistaken.)

     EVERYBODY'S read the DOOR books (tho I still haven't
     had a chance to get past the first fifty pages of 
     the new one...).  I'd love to discuss it... put me
     back in the swing of what's gone before when I finally
     do sit down to read Freelorn's narrative...

>Anyone interested in the scenario?  The world is set up such
>that members of the same sex often are lovers, with the caveat
>that you must produce at least one child. The plot is heavily
>mythological and, at least for me, the outcome is totally
>irrelevant. The mood of the books is enough to satisfy me.
>Definitely one of the top ten series for me.

     I don't read fantasy, as a rule.  There's nothing about
     the worlds in these books that I find compelling enough
     to tell a good, adult story with good, adult plotting -
     but all the same give me that first-reading-Tolkein-feeling
     when I was 7 or 8.  
     Diane - who is one of my favorite authors overall - does
     that with these books.  
     I wouldn't call the setting mythological.  Just different.
     She focuses on what we have in reality skewed a little -
     so we have sexual orientations and morays of this world,
     politics of this world, and therefore political intrigue...
     and PHYSICS.  There's no magic in Duane's world, per se -
     just a different kind of physics.  

     It's one of the richest worlds I've read - others are Duane's
     Vulcan (Star Trek... I know, I know... but read the book) and
     Romulan people (The Romulan Way and My Enemy, My Ally).

                 Shortly  thereafter, the health of  Annie
                 Blackburn still in question, the behavior
                 of Special Agent  Dale Cooper was noticed
                 __________________________to have changed.
                                              Scott Gorcey.            
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