More on those books
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katherineOn the other day's Thirty-year-old paperbacks.
The metaphors continue in The Other Mother. "This was more of a golden ram than a black sheep. He could have been a walking advertisement for suntan lotion."
Meanwhile in my re-read of The Cage, a reference to a past event had me looking again at the ISFDB's series list on Fifth Millenium (which doesn't in fact show the full complexity since there was a 1992 revision to Snowbrother and slight title change into Snow Brother). So I've ordered The Sharpest Edge to compare to its revision Saber and Shadow. Yet more reading and re-reading in my future, since going by publication order The Sharpest Edge is the more canonical past to The Cage! (I already have both editions of Snow Brother and there's a character age changed that makes more sense in the first.)
The metaphors continue in The Other Mother. "This was more of a golden ram than a black sheep. He could have been a walking advertisement for suntan lotion."
Meanwhile in my re-read of The Cage, a reference to a past event had me looking again at the ISFDB's series list on Fifth Millenium (which doesn't in fact show the full complexity since there was a 1992 revision to Snowbrother and slight title change into Snow Brother). So I've ordered The Sharpest Edge to compare to its revision Saber and Shadow. Yet more reading and re-reading in my future, since going by publication order The Sharpest Edge is the more canonical past to The Cage! (I already have both editions of Snow Brother and there's a character age changed that makes more sense in the first.)
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Date: September 14th, 2019 09:29 pm (UTC)I've never tracked down The Sharpest Edge, but the comparisons of Shkai'ra's independent books made me very intrigued.
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Date: September 14th, 2019 10:34 pm (UTC)I might have compared Snowbrother and Snow Brother pretty much page by page, so... well. I do find comparing revisions interesting!