From: Robotech_Master Aug 28, 2007
Dear Chris
You can let the Kencyr list know that Baen is buying the next Jame
novel and reissuing the first four, possibly in omnibus editions. I
don't know if the latter are trade paperback, mass, or hardcover.
Also, someone told me about the collection of first editions sold for
$280. Someone got a bargain. I've seen a signed 1st ed. Atheneum God
Stalk going for $410 by itself at AbeBooks.com.
Nice to have met you at NASFIC!
PcH
> 03 Nov 2006
She has begun the next novel and it should be out in three years.
Lynn Hatcher
Meisha Merlin Publishing
Earlier posts and newsgroup discussions of Pat's work can be found in
the News Archive
P.C. (Patricia Christine) Hodgell was born in 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa and lives in the U.S.A. She has
completed a doctorate in English Literature. (Her four hundred page doctoral dissertation,
"The Nonsense of Ancient Days: Sources of Ivanhoe", has been offset from the
original typescript and used to be available from Hypatia Press.) Both her parents were
professional artists, her father was the noted artist Robert Hodgell.
She currently lives in Winsconsin and teaches English at the
Oshkosh
campus of the University of Wisconsin. [Thanks to Heidi Stanton for that snippet. - Note
PCH does not use the email address at Oshkosh.]
She also teaches a distance learning course at the University of Minnesota (University College) entitled
"Studies in Narrative: Science Fiction and Fantasy".
On this page PCH also gives some background information about herself. I'll quote what she says about her
Kencyr books :
Also, I've published three novels: God Stalk, Dark of the Moon, and Seeker's Mask. All are
part of an on-going fantasy saga concerned not only with high adventure but also with questions of personal
identity, religion, politics, honor, and arboreal drift. From this, you may gather (correctly) that I have
a deep commitment to fantasy as a vehicle not only of wonder but also of self-discovery, as the best
fantasy always is -- in support of which, see Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.
From the notes in "The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes"
P.C. Hodgell... is currently working on a fantasy sequel to Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. A teacher at the University of Winsconsin, she lives in a wind-swept mansion with her mother, three cats and 1,600 balls of yarn, "because I'm an art knitter."
see also her biography on the Meisha Merlin Page
The Jame books are :
| God Stalk | 1982 | (ISBN 0-940841-44-4) original Berkley trade pbk |
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| Dark of the Moon | 1985 | (ISBN 0-940841-45-2) |
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| Chronicles of the Kencyrath | 1987 | (ISBN 0-450-42400-6) trade paperback |
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| Seeker's Mask | 1994 | (ISBN 0-940841-30-4) limited edition hardback |
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| Dark of the Gods | 2000 | (ISBN 1-892065-26-6) trade pbk |
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| | 2000 | (ISBN 1-892065-25-8) limited edition hardback |
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| Seeker's Mask | 2001 | (ISBN: 1-892065-34-7) trade pbk |
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| | 2001 | (ISBN: 1-892065-33-9) limited edition hardback |
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| To Ride a Rathorn | 2006 | (ISBN: 1-59222-102-5) hardback |
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| Blood and Ivory | 1994 | (ISBN 0-9408041-43-6) |
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| Blood and Ivory: A Tapestry | 2002 | (ISBN: 1-892065-73-8) trade paperback |
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| Blood and Ivory: A Tapestry | 2002 | (ISBN: 1-892065-72.X) hardback |
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[The first two were published in mass-market paperback format. A trade paperback
version of Blood and Ivory was announced but never seen.]
"Chronicles of the Kencyrath" was published in the UK by the New English Library
as a single volume containing "God Stalk" and "Dark of the Moon" and is long out of print.
Award Nominations: [Source]
- Child of Darkness
- 1981 Locus Poll - Best Short Story
- God Stalk
- 1983 Locus Poll - Best First Novel; 1983 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
- Dark of the Moon
- 1986 Locus Poll - Best Fantasy Novel; 1986 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
The full publication history of all PC Hodgell's books
can be found on the Locus Index to Science Fiction and Internet Speculative Fiction Database websites
Several of her shorter stories (set in the same world) were printed as chapbooks which
Hypatia reprinted the 4 Jame short stories in a collection entitled
"Blood and Ivory" to match the full-length stories.
Reviews of God Stalk and Seeker's Mask can be found in the
Linköping Science Fiction Archive.
The "In Other Worlds" site
has reviews of all three books (and other authors' books as well).
Comprehensive reviews of Seekers Mask are to be found on the Science Fiction Reviews and Epiphyte Book Review
sites. Both are very thorough and contain many spoilers.
Having started with my (unashamedly biased) take on the Kencyr books I thought I'd
finish with an extract from the introduction to "Seeker's Mask".
And How We've Missed Her
(Charles de Lint's introduction to "Seeker's Mask" talking about
the earlier books - Sep 1993)
...the bare bones of the plot undoubtedly sound like any one of the literaly dozens
of derivative fantasy novels that clog the shelves of our bookstores, but that's far
from the case here. Like Guy Gavriel Kay and Patricia A. McKillip, like Janet Yolen
and Midori Snyder and a few other talented fantasists, Pat works with the archetypes of
myth and high fantasy and uses tham as a means of confronting and dealing with the real
world, rather than as simple escapism. Her work demands involvement from the reader,
not because her prose can be so dense, or the plotlines don't always follow through in
a traditionally linear sense, but because there is an underlying resonance to every
action and motive and description.
You come away from one of Pat's books with your mind and heart humming. The reverberations
of what you've read carry through into the world beyond the book's pages and you see
things differently. Connections that originated in the novels link with our own lives,
offering insights and questions, both of which are important as we make our way though
the confusing morass of the world.
...Like many of us Pat has cast her net into the pool of what went before, but unlike most,
she replenishes those waters with more than what she took.
Endnotes
I would welcome any information or news about P.C. Hodgell and any contributions to this
web-site.
In particular, if anyone would like to contribute artwork or fan fiction drop
me an e-mail and I'll find some space for you.
© Steve Clark:
sjclark@ormail.co.uk
Original created 12th December 1996
Last Updated 25th April 2007
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