From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2015-02-17 19:57:13 +0000, Brian M. Scott said:   
      
   > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:53:21 GMT, Dorothy J Heydt   
   >  wrote in   
   > in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >> The Matter of Britain is *still* getting re-told.  The   
   >> Matter of Troy and the Matter of France, not so much.   
   >> (Although parts of the Matter of France, adaptations of   
   >> Orlando Furioso, are still being done as puppet shows in   
   >> Italy.  The only English-language work in the Matter of   
   >> France I know of is Anderson's _Three Hearts and Three   
   >> Lions._)   
   >   
   > De Camp & Pratt, _The Castle of Iron_, one of the Harold   
   > Shea novels (from an earlier novella with the same title).   
   >   
   > Italo Calvino, _The Nonexistent Knight_, though it’s a   
   > translation from the original Italian.   
   >   
   > Andre Norton, _Huon of the Horn_.   
   >   
   > R.A. Lafferty, ‘Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne’ might count:   
   > time travellers kill Ganelon early enough to prevent the   
   > Battle of Roncesvaux Pass.   
   >   
   > Troy is a little easier:   
   >   
   > John Erskine, _The Private Life of Helen of Troy_   
   >   
   > Jo Graham, _Black Ships_ (Why yes, she *was* strongly   
   > influenced by Mary Renault.)   
   >   
   > R.A. Lafferty, _Space Chantey_.  (‘The Lay of Road-Storm   
   > from the ancient Chronicles / We give you here, Good   
   > Spheres and Cool-Boy Conicals, / And pinnacled and parts   
   > impossible / And every word of it the sworn-on Gosipel. /   
   > Lend ear while things incredible we bring about / And   
   > Spacemen dead and deathless yet we sing about:-- / And some   
   > were weak and wan, asnd some were strong enough, / And some   
   > got home, but damn it took them long enough!’)   
   >   
   > David Gemmell’s Troy trilogy: _Lord of the Silver Bow_,   
   > _Shield of Thunder_, _Fall of Kings_, the last completed by   
   > his wife Stella after his death.   
   >   
   > Le Guin, _Lavinia_   
      
   And Eric Shanower's "Age of Bronze".   
      
   --   
   John W Kennedy   
   "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts.  Only the heir to the throne   
   of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"   
    -- J. Michael Straczynski.  "Babylon 5", "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"   
      
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