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FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
REC'D: 11/1/99, 2:21 PM

I have a patron who loves Gary Jennings and has
devoured all his novels. He of course is looking for
authors like Jennings. I think the Aztec theme is what
he likes but he also enjoyed Raptor and that's about a
Goth in Roman times. So it may just be ancient
civilizations type themes. Any thoughts out there?

Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library

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FROM: "Viccy Kemp" <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
REC'D: 11/1/99, 3:34 PM

What about the Colleen McCullough's series about Rome and the Caesars?
Daniel Peters has also written a big fat book about the Aztecs entitled "The
luck of Huemac : a novel about the Aztecs."
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiction_L [[removed]@nslsilus.ORG]
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 2:24 PM
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> Subject: Gary Jennings (fwd)
>
> I have a patron who loves Gary Jennings and has
> devoured all his novels. He of course is looking for
> authors like Jennings. I think the Aztec theme is what
> he likes but he also enjoyed Raptor and that's about a
> Goth in Roman times. So it may just be ancient
> civilizations type themes. Any thoughts out there?
>
> Jeanne Heuer
> Brown County Library
>
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>
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FROM: "Kathy Loucks" <[removed]@cml.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 11/1/99, 4:06 PM

How about Edward Rutherfurd or Barbara Woods.

FROM: "Dennis K. Lien" <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 11/1/99, 4:42 PM

>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 14:24:09 -0600
>From: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
>Subject: Gary Jennings (fwd)
>
>I have a patron who loves Gary Jennings and has
>devoured all his novels. He of course is looking for
>authors like Jennings. I think the Aztec theme is what
>he likes but he also enjoyed Raptor and that's about a
>Goth in Roman times. So it may just be ancient
>civilizations type themes. Any thoughts out there?
>
>Jeanne Heuer
>Brown County Library
>


Or, of course, he might just like Jennings' writing, regardless of theme;
if that's the case, you might point out the following title, written by
Jennings under a pseudonym:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author: Quyth, Gabriel.

Title: The lively lives of Crispin Mobey / Gabriel Quyth.

Published: New York : Atheneum, 1988.

Description: 243 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 25 cm.

ISBN: 0689120230
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
LOCATION: CALL NUMBER: STATUS:
WILSON PS3567 .U96 L58 1988 Not checked out


Since LC did not trace the pseudonym, I suspect few libraries "know"
about this one. (It's a novelization of some short stories Jennings
published under his own name in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE
FICTION.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Kathy Mitchum" <[removed]@ckls.org>
REC'D: 11/1/99, 5:06 PM

James Michener's The Source might interest your patron. (Also, maybe Norman
Mailer's Ancient evenings)


At 02:24 PM 11/1/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I have a patron who loves Gary Jennings and has
>devoured all his novels. He of course is looking for
>authors like Jennings. I think the Aztec theme is what
>he likes but he also enjoyed Raptor and that's about a
>Goth in Roman times. So it may just be ancient
>civilizations type themes. Any thoughts out there?
>
>Jeanne Heuer
>Brown County Library
>
>=====
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Bid and sell for free at <A HREF="http://auctions.yahoo.com">http://auctions.yahoo.com</A>
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Kathy Mitchum
ILL/Ref/Rural Serv/Tech Serv, Dept. Head
Central Kansas Library System
[removed]@ckls.org

FROM: <[removed]@infoave.net>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 5:36 AM

Jamake Highwater's The Sun He Rises is another suggestion. Cortez,
Montezuma, others. I loved it.

Debbie Spear
Greenville (SC) County Library

FROM: <[removed]@infoave.net>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 9:23 AM

So now I guess I have to enter myself in the bloopers category. As
someone else pointed out, this is The Sun, He Dies. Or maybe it's Jamake
Hemingway. Brother!

Debbie Spear

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 [removed]@InfoAve.Net wrote:

> Jamake Highwater's The Sun He Rises is another suggestion. Cortez,
> Montezuma, others. I loved it.
>
> Debbie Spear
> Greenville (SC) County Library
>
>
>

FROM: "J Heuer" <[removed]@itol.com>
REC'D: 11/2/99, 12:04 PM

If you have more ideas feel free to send them but I wanted to say thanks.
I'll be following up on your suggestions today. And though I think I
probably won't be able to get the Jennings written under a pseud., Dennis,
it did cross my mind that the patron just really liked GJ's style. The man
will be in this week sometime I'm sure so I'll keep you all posted.

Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
[removed]@itol.com

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones
to keep." -anonymous

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