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Re: Fantasy equivalent to the Hugo?



On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 07:16:38 +0000 (UTC), Joe Bernstein
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Evelyn C. Leeper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>          Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Three Worlds" series
>
>Um, which is this?

OUT OF THIS WORLD, IN THE EMPIRE OF SHADOW, and THE REIGN OF THE BROWN
MAGICIAN, now available from Wildside Press as one fat expensive
hardcover under the title WORLDS OF SHADOW.

I say they're horror, trumping the other genres.

>>          Lawrence Watt-Evans's CYBORG AND THE SORCERERS and THE
>>                  WIZARD AND THE WAR MACHINE
>
>Fantasy.  Magic in use, trumping the tech.

But the "magic" is psionics, the result of a mutation that happened
when the planet got nuked.  (And yes, that _is_ explicit in the text.)
I don't get in under the Campbell exception?







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