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hawkwing_lbBooks 2012: 85-87
85. Elizabeth Bear, ad eternum. (Subterranean Press, 2012.)
There are to be no more wampyr stories? To hear this makes me sad. Very sad indeed.
This is a decidedly elegant little novella, and immensely satisfying. (I mourn that I cannot afford the limited edition with the extra story, but such is life.) Highly recommended.
86. Lynn Flewelling, Casket of Souls. (Ballantine, 2012.)
Review forthcoming from Tor.com. Really not Flewelling's finest hour.
nonfiction
87. Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. Routledge Classics, Oxford, 2002. First published Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
The late Dame Frances Yates was famously - and not unflawedly, but who among us is without flaw? - a historian of 16th and 17th century Hermetic and occult intellectual movements. This is a vibrant and compact little book that aims to place the early 17th century Rosicrucian manifestos in a historical context related to the marriage of the Elector Palatine to the English Stuart Princess Elizabeth, their short reign at Heidelberg, and the Elector Palatine's disastrous bid to claim the crown of Bohemia. There follows some attempt to trace the influence of the Rosicrucian idea up to the foundation of the Royal Society in England.
Unfortunately for any follow-up interest, the footnotes are forty years out of date, and Dame Frances appears to have disbelieved in collecting her bibliography in one place. Routledge Classics could have supplied this lack with a more recent introduction and up-to-date bibliography. It is to their discredit they did not.
85. Elizabeth Bear, ad eternum. (Subterranean Press, 2012.)
There are to be no more wampyr stories? To hear this makes me sad. Very sad indeed.
This is a decidedly elegant little novella, and immensely satisfying. (I mourn that I cannot afford the limited edition with the extra story, but such is life.) Highly recommended.
86. Lynn Flewelling, Casket of Souls. (Ballantine, 2012.)
Review forthcoming from Tor.com. Really not Flewelling's finest hour.
nonfiction
87. Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. Routledge Classics, Oxford, 2002. First published Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
The late Dame Frances Yates was famously - and not unflawedly, but who among us is without flaw? - a historian of 16th and 17th century Hermetic and occult intellectual movements. This is a vibrant and compact little book that aims to place the early 17th century Rosicrucian manifestos in a historical context related to the marriage of the Elector Palatine to the English Stuart Princess Elizabeth, their short reign at Heidelberg, and the Elector Palatine's disastrous bid to claim the crown of Bohemia. There follows some attempt to trace the influence of the Rosicrucian idea up to the foundation of the Royal Society in England.
Unfortunately for any follow-up interest, the footnotes are forty years out of date, and Dame Frances appears to have disbelieved in collecting her bibliography in one place. Routledge Classics could have supplied this lack with a more recent introduction and up-to-date bibliography. It is to their discredit they did not.
