The IBIC Guide to Books By Daniel Keys Moran

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March 7, 1995

Let's hear it for our local librarians! The magic of interlibrary loan brought me three otherwise unobtainable books by Daniel Keys Moran Web: ARMEGGADON BLUES, EMERALD EYES, and THE LONG RUN (all by Bantam). I also reread his 1993 THE LAST DANCER. It's interesting--he shows a lot of growth as an author and a man. ARMAGGEDDON BLUES is almost unreadably juvenile, and I don't recommend it; EMERALD EYES is complex and engaging, a significant step forward; THE LONG RUN is less complex in terms of story, but the character of Trent the Uncatchable is more sharply sketched than anything in EE; and THE LAST DANCER puts it all together, story and character considerably richer than any of his previous books. I recommend you start with EMERALD EYES and watch alertly for THE AI WARS. Moran is definitely an author to watch: he's hitting his stride.

Fall 1994

THE LAST DANCER by Daniel Keys Moran is the first book I've read by this prolific and ambitious SF author, whom I first heard of here on the Net. It won't be the last. It's off to the Ann Arbor Public Library to read his oeuvre.

Moran says in his Author's Note that he projects 33 novels in his TALES OF CONTINUING TIME series, of which THE LAST DANCER is the 4th. He's not going to take any short cuts to 33, either: THE LAST DANCER is a long and meaty book that kept me involved for a lot more time than I could afford on a very busy weekend. This book is great stuff set in the 21st century high-tech wish-fulfillment milieu (telepaths, AIs, genetically engineered humans) which has produced so much excellent SF in recent years.


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Editor's Recommendations, Summer 1996

In this inaugural edition of IBIC's Featured Books, I'd like to draw your attention to several titles which have helped to shape my life and thinking.

  • When I was around fifteen, I came across Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's science fiction novel, INFERNO. This '70s remake of Dante's classic describes science fiction writer Allen Carpentier's descent into Hell. It's still a very fresh, accessible take on the classic. What a great movie it would make!
  • The Niven/Pournelle INFERNO immediately inspired me to read the original Divine Comedy. I've read a number of translations over the years, but my favorite is the one by Dorothy Sayers (INFERNO; PURGATORY; PARADISE). The notes are excellent, and Sayers had such a knowledgeable and witty mind that reading her prose is a pleasure in itself. (For those interested in a more contemporary translation, I should mention that Robert Pinsky received excellent notices for his 1995 THE INFERNO OF DANTE : A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION; it's a very handsome book.)
  • I also want to tell you about the late Henry Fairlie's THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS TODAY, which probably did more than any other single book to galvanize me into a lifetime interest in Christianity that led me, eventually, to faith. Ironic, because Fairlie was a self-proclaimed agnostic socialist! But reading between the lines of this insightful and deeply feeling book, one realizes that the love of God cannot have been far from Fairlie's heart.
  • Finally, I should draw to your attention a more recent acquisition, the very handsome NIV STUDY BIBLE (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) from Zondervan, indexed and bonded in leather in IBIC's theme color, burgundy (black and brown are also available). The notes to this Bible are amazing. They appear to provide you with a very substantial portion of what you need to know to have an intelligent layman's appreciation of the linguistic and historical issues involved in understanding Scripture.

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