Robert Holdstock

[AE35Unit]

A few years ago i read Mythago Wood and loved it! Thing is I can't remember the other books in the series. Anyone read these? Also I have Where the Time Winds Blow which is pure sf set on a strange planet. Must get round to reading that!

 

[GOLLUM]

Well timely you mention this. I was discussing this with JD the other day.

Victor Gollancz are putting out an omnibus series of the entire Mythago sequence. The first 2 volumes are out and I've been thinking about buying them. I only ever had Mythago Wood and my question remains to anyone out there who has read the entire series, are they of a good quality or do they deteriorate?

 

[AE35Unit]

I just found Mythago very engaging,good characters,quite enchanting. One only hopes the follow ups are on the same level.

 

[Durandal]

Mythago Wood was just fantastic, but the series does sort of go downhill from there. I wouldn't say the latter books are bad, really, just not as good as the first one.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

He also wrote the Raven series as Tim Kirk.

 

[iansales]

I prefer his earlier sf - Where Time Winds Blow is one of my favourite sf novels.

 

[Snowdog]

If you like Mythago Wood you absolutely must read Lavondyss at the very least, because Mythago Wood is only half the tale. I rate Lavondyss if anything more highly. The Hollowing is also excellent. I haven't yet read the prequel so I don't know what that's like.

I've also read The Fetch, which is good, but is more of a horror story than fantasy.

The only one of Holdstock's that I didn't like too much was Ancient Echoes, I think because the main character wasn't very likeable.

 

[AE35Unit]

Hmmm thanks for that Ian,i always presumed that Time Winds was a lesser work but will look forward to reading that sometime!

 

[Anthony G Williams]

I read Mythago Wood and Lavondyss a long time ago and enjoyed them - especially the intense, rather weird atmosphere the author created. The Hollowing has been on my "to read" shelf for far too long - time to get stuck in!

 

[AE35Unit]

Re: Robert Holdstock/Where Time Winds Blow

Just checked up this book on Fantastic Fiction where it is listed as a collection,yet i thought it was a novel! The synopsis certainly reads like a novel. Or is it like Aldiss' collection Canopy of Time, and Asimov's I Robot,a series of linked stories?

 

[iansales]

Where Time Winds Blow is certainly a novel.

 

[AE35Unit]

Thats what i thought Ian. It must be an error on Fantastic fiction,should email them,make them aware of it...