Deep in Fire Logic

Nnnnnghhh!!!! Laurie Marks writes like a motherfucking angel!

For years people have been telling me to read this book -- Fire Logic -- and now I see it's true. By page 90 I had cried twice and felt so emotionally jerked around and invested in the story I couldn't stand it, but i couldn't stop reading. I recall the mass outrage when whoeveritwas didn't publish book 3 of this series for whatever-reason-I-don't-care, and the Secret Caballing and knowing-who-to-talk-to that moved mountains to make it possible to publish the third book, or at least the mountains of someone nicely going "oh yeah" and releasing the rights so someone else could publish it, and at the time I noticed something monumental was happening but only from a distance. Anyway, now I really appreciate it and love this community even more for doing something so important and cool. It comes down to knowing to ask, and knowing who to ask, and how, AND them not being jerks ... and each piece of that is non-trivial.

Imagine how hot these books would be as a several-year tv series! All the slashy goodness and the drama! Battle-scarred hill women waging guerrilla warfare!

Thank god I packed the 2nd in the series instead of shipping it...

I have a ton of work to do AND am sad not to be at Wiscon any more, but at the end of the work tonight I have a reward of wallowing in this juicy book.

Comments

[Paige]

Random comment:

I read it initially as a sort of random 'this looks good' at the library when I was still in high school, not knowing at all about the sexuality of the characters. It was definitely, along with Nicola Griffith's Slow River, one of the first books I read when I was young and questioning, where female characters loved female characters and everyone was down with it, but that it wasn't the POINT of the book. Made a big impression on me at that time. Was great to be able to tell Laurie and Deb so.

Earth Logic, as I recall, started a bit slow for my tastes, but then moves like crazy. And I didn't even know about the publishing snafu with TOR, because I am slow to hear talk. I'm just really glad SBP and everyone have got things sorted as it's a series that deserves completion.

[Naamenblog]

So many of my books are being shipped and won't be here until Monday, including the Logic series.

Luckily I packed Mindscape & Ammonite in my luggage so I have those.

[vito excalibur]

SO GOOD. I picked it up basically b/c everyone seemed to be talking about it and read it going HOLY CRAP THIS IS AMAZING and only then realized that the author is the same Laurie Marks who wrote one of my favorite I-like-this-but-I-don't-fully-understand-it and I-plan-to-read-it-again-in-five-years-when-I-am-wiser books, Dancing Jack.

But I only picked up Fire Logic because I didn't want to get a whole series at once in case it sucked! I have no faith and am lame. Now I need to hie me to the bookstore to get Earth Logic (and the second Kushiel book.)