Cliffhanger warning: this one ends in a way that will strongly encourage you to jump straight into the next one. You might want to make sure it'll be Cliffhanger warning: this one ends in a way that will strongly encourage you to jump straight into the next one. You might want to make sure it'll be available. That book, Bleak Seasons is not included in the omnibus volume The Books of the South that this one is, but the next one: The Return of the Black Company (as well as in the larger collections)....more
Cliffhanger warning: this one ends in a way that will strongly encourage you to jump straight into the next one. You might want to make sure it'll be Cliffhanger warning: this one ends in a way that will strongly encourage you to jump straight into the next one. You might want to make sure it'll be available. It's included in the omnibus volume The Books of the South....more
I was looking into the history of naming hurricanes, and stumbled on this. The New York Times reviewed it as “phenomenal”, although I think the authorI was looking into the history of naming hurricanes, and stumbled on this. The New York Times reviewed it as “phenomenal”, although I think the author was having a bit of pun, since a storm is a meteorological phenomena. Still, it was a very positive review. You can look at the original review from November 20th, 1941, (which was just about two weeks before Pearl Harbor). Here is an even more enthusiastic amateur review. Oddly, the tradition is to name tropical storms and hurricanes, not extratropical storms, such as the one in this book.
Of special note: an unnamed junior meteorologist names the titular mega storm "Maria". In a 1947 reprint, the author wrote a forward explaining that "The soft Spanish pronunciation is fine for some heroines, but our Maria here is too big for any man to embrace and much too boisterous." So the name was to be pronounced with a "rye" in the middle, not as in the traditional Spanish pronunciation. So when Storm more-or-less inspired the musical and movie Paint Your Wagon, it included the song They Call the Wind Maria, pronounced as the author of Storm intended. And to wrap up the special note, this is the origin of Mariah Carey’s name (also quite big and boisterous?).
Note to self: One reprinted edition has an introduction by Wallace Stegner, a later one has an introduction by Ernest Callenbach. Well, duh: all towering San Francisco Bay Area literary elites. Still, how to choose?...more
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