glass_icarus | closing the book. (Reply)

Discovered just now [re: Thirteenth Child], exactly where my limits are:

The *plan* is for it to be a "settling the frontier" book, only without Indians (because I really hate both the older Indians-as-savages viewpoint that was common in that sort of book, *and* the modern Indians-as-gentle-ecologists viewpoint that seems to be so popular lately, and this seems the best way of eliminating the problem, plus it'll let me play with all sorts of cool megafauna). I'm not looking for wildly divergent history, because if it goes too far afield I won't get the right feel.

So. Goodbye, Patricia C. Wrede. Your stories were wonderful, but now you have tainted them for me forever. I'm not strong enough or fierce enough for this, so I'm ending our conversation today.