I’ve been busy the last little while, but today the sun is shining and it might be time to go play. So I set aside various projects and before I closed the Intarweb for the day I fossicked about a bit.
One of the sites I checked was SF Gateway, and got a warm fuzzy feeling when I found that I now have two novels on the Top 10 of the Week:
Part of the warm fuzzy wasn’t just my books, but seeing Keith Roberts’ novel on there, too. I don’t think many people in the US know his work, which is a shame. Pavane is an amazing alternate history novel. That and Kiteworld are my favourites by him.
The top ten of the month made me positively nostalgic:
These are all fabulous books. Wow. Now if there were only a few more women on both lists my warmthiness would overflow.
Nicola Griffith 
I read Keith Roberts way back when. The Chalk Giants, The Inner Wheel, The Furies…
and oddly have never read Pavane, though I've owned a copy for lo these last 35 years. Just one of those books I always intended to get to but just never did. Maybe now I will.
BTW, you're in good company. Some of those novels are just brilliant. There are at least 5 of my favorites on that list.
Mark, let me know what you think of Pavane. And, yes, fab list. Beaming…
First on Gateway, my bookshelf, our public library dhelves, and in our hearts!
I read Pavane the first time back in high school in the '80s: a copy lent to me by my English teacher. There are five titles on the list that I haven't read, but only two that I've never heard of before. I've only read Shaw's Orbitsville.
David, have you read Norstrilia? That one gave me a real frisson when I read it.
Smith is on my list, but I've only read a but of the rediscovery of man.
congrats!
Congratulations! This is really awesome.
Thank you!