Some reviews

[fpw]

I belive you're all aware of Russ Madden's review of Crisscross. Here's another:
http://www.horror-web.com/reviews/YaBB.cgi?board=Books;action=display;num=1082468265

And here's one of Midnight Mass: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/books.html

[Richard Kendrick]

I belive you're all aware of Russ Madden's review of Crisscross. Here's another:
http://www.horror-web.com/reviews/YaBB.cgi?board=Books;action=display;num=1082468265

Wow, that guy really likes the book.

Thanks for the tease.

RIK (Adding slowly to his campaign to become a Senior Member like Ken. :) )

[Bluesman Mike Lindner]

[QUOTE=fpw][SIZE=3]I belive you're all aware of Russ Madden's review of Crisscross. Here's another:
http://www.horror-web.com/reviews/YaBB.cgi?board=Books;action=display;num=1082468265

Wow, that guy really likes the book.

Thanks for the tease.

RIK (Adding slowy to his campaign to become a Senior Member like Ken. :) )

I'd think twice before modeling myself after the notorious Ken V. :D

[Ken Valentine]

I'd think twice before modeling myself after the notorious Ken V. :D

Notoriety is good . . . isn't it? :(

Ken V.

[jimbow8]

Notoriety is good . . . isn't it? :(

Ken V.
Yeah, its like being inFAMOUS! ;)

[Bluesman Mike Lindner]

Notoriety is good . . . isn't it? :(

Ken V.

Shipmate, there's notoriety and then there's notoriety. If I were you, I'd explain to Interpol--again--how the whole plutonium-smuggling thing was just a big misunderstanding. :D

[Ken Valentine]

Shipmate, there's notoriety and then there's notoriety. If I were you, I'd explain to Interpol--again--how the whole plutonium-smuggling thing was just a big misunderstanding. :D

That was settled long ago. The last problem I had was with England's version of F.A.T.A.S.S.. (Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service.) I was trying to board a plane at Heathrow, and they had a big problem with some tea I was bringing along with me. It was regular Chinese Black Tea, but was of a special cut called "Gunpowder." Eventually, they let me on with the tea -- in a plastic bag -- but they just HAD to confiscate the cardboard package, I mean after all, It said gunpowder on the label, can't let anybody board a plane with anything that says "gun powder" on it, can they?

Ken V.

(This actually did happen last year, exactly as I stated -- just not to me.)

[Bluesman Mike Lindner]

That was settled long ago. The last problem I had was with England's version of F.A.T.A.S.S.. (Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service.) I was trying to board a plane at Heathrow, and they had a big problem with some tea I was bringing along with me. It was regular Chinese Black Tea, but was of a special cut called "Gunpowder." Eventually, they let me on with the tea -- in a plastic bag -- but they just HAD to confiscate the cardboard package, I mean after all, It said gunpowder on the label, can't let anybody board a plane with anything that says "gun powder" on it, can they?

Ken V.

(This actually did happen last year, exactly as I stated -- just not to me.)

I'm curious, Ken--do you have a solid reference for the infamous Gunpowder Tea Incident? Somehow, it has the ring of foaflore. But I'm glad the plutonium misunderstanding turned out OK. I told a couple of very serious Feds all I knew about it--you needed the heavy metal as ballast for your yacht, that's all. ;)

[Ken Valentine]

I'm curious, Ken--do you have a solid reference for the infamous Gunpowder Tea Incident? Somehow, it has the ring of foaflore. But I'm glad the plutonium misunderstanding turned out OK. I told a couple of very serious Feds all I knew about it--you needed the heavy metal as ballast for your yacht, that's all. ;)

For the gunpowder tea incident see:

http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/bb.shtml#042003-1

Read the short article, then click on "Full List" for a detailed account. You might also want to verify the existence of gunpowder tea. Google gunpowder+tea or click on that item in the article.

The keel on my boat weighs three tons, and it's lead with 6% Antimony. If I wanted to make it heavier, I'd use tungsten -- twice the weight of lead and a lot cheaper than Plutonium. The Plutonium is for my time machine.

Ken V.

[Bluesman Mike Lindner]

For the gunpowder tea incident see:

http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/bb.shtml#042003-1

Read the short article, then click on "Full List" for a detailed account. You might also want to verify the existence of gunpowder tea. Google gunpowder+tea or click on that item in the article.

The keel on my boat weighs three tons, and it's lead with 6% Antimony. If I wanted to make it heavier, I'd use tungsten -- twice the weight of lead and a lot cheaper than Plutonium. The Plutonium is for my time machine.

Ken V.
I read about the Gunpowder Tea Massacre incident on the site you mentioned. Good info, thanks.

I'd love to see the specs of your time machine. Plutonium? My temporal-mech claims that's risky. (I don't know, I leave that kind of thing to the experts.) I'm still using good old thorium, but would like a high-powered upgrade--my txy generator =will not= get me into the Garden of Eden, and my PEOPLE magazine deadline is getting damn close--the one for an exclusive inteview with Adam and Eve. When I get my money back from the Infernal Revenue Service, I'll be shopping around.

[Scott Miller]

I belive you're all aware of Russ Madden's review of Crisscross. Here's another:
http://www.horror-web.com/reviews/YaBB.cgi?board=Books;action=display;num=1082468265

And here's one of Midnight Mass: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/books.html

I just read this this morning and am anxiously awaiting the library to inform me that their copy has arrived as I am first on the list.

Scott

UNREAL WORLDS

Midnight Mass

By F. Paul Wilson (Tor, $25.95) Grade: A

The biggest problem with vampire fiction, if authors stick by the criteria established by Bram Stoker in Dracula in 1897, is that vampires increase geometrically. If each person a vampire sucks dry becomes a vampire, and each person that new vampire dines on becomes a vampire, it doesn't take long before the whole world is populated by vampires.

Stephen King took this into account in Salem's Lot, and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend is a classic genre novel, in which the last non-vampire battles to save his soul. But most other authors don't play by the rules. Finally, F. Paul Wilson has written a vampire novel in the tradition of Stoker, Matheson and King.

The premise is that vampires have always existed in Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other Iron Curtain countries, keeping their numbers low by beheading their victims. But with the fall of communism and the uncertain political climate, the vampires have gone public and taken over most of Europe, India and the Far East.

In the United States, the Catholic Church has denied the existence of vampires, and government officials have felt safe with two oceans as barriers. However, it isn't much more difficult to smuggle a vampire across our borders than a planeload of drugs. And several major cities are now in vampire control.

Renfield served as a human surrogate for Dracula; here human "cowboys" are recruited to take care of the thirsty bloodsuckers' needs during the daylight hours (people are herded as stock to provide nourishment for the vampires).

In a small New Jersey city, a fallen priest, his niece, a rabbi and a nun have come together to try to overthrow the vampires and their human protectors who now own their town. Together with the few parish members who remain free, they recapture their church, which had become a place of vampire defilement, and fortify it to make an Alamo-like stand against the invading hordes.

If they can win, it will encourage others to stand up against their oppressors and prevent the end of humanity.

If you're a lover of horror fiction, vampires and early Stephen King novels, take note: Midnight Mass is the best thing to come along in years.

Mark Graham

[Marc]

That's a very good review. Damn you Cemetary Dance for making us wait!

[Tim Hatch]

That's a very good review. Damn you Cemetary Dance for making us wait!

I'm with you!! I couldn't wait for my Cemetery Dance copy to arrive (cuz who knows when THAT'S going to happen, just look at Sims!) so I bought the TOR edition also.