NP _The Mount_

[Tombesh at aol.com]

<Emswhiller is no newcomer. The 81-year-old writer has
been writing
<since the 50s, when she was first compared with Samuel
Deluny. The
<Mount is her eighth book after four collections of
stories and the
<novels Ledoyt, Leaping Man Hill and Carmen Dog.

Two small points -- 1st, a tyop -- it's Samuel Delany. 2nd -- Delany 
published nothing until the '60s (he was too young to have published in the 
'50s), so a '50s comparison wouldn't have been possible.

Emshwiller is a helluva writer. Her short fiction can be wonderful too. The 
same small press -- named Small Beer Press -- published a short fiction 
collection of her work simultaneously with The Mount. The collection is 
called Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories. I comment it to all fans 
of fabulist writing.

Tom