Sunday, 18th of January, 2004

Via David Langford’s Ansible newsletter I’ve just heard the sad news that Joan Aiken died on the 4th of January this year at 79. She was the author of the wonderful “Dido Twite” sequence of alternative-history fantasy novels that I adored as a kid (The Wolves of Willhougby Chase, Black Hearts in Battersea, Night Birds on Nantucket - dark and endlessly fascinating adventure with a strong female heroine. I’m sure these books (and some short stories and at least one other novel I read and re-read at the time) affected my psyche a lot more than I now recall. Will have to re-read them again, after probably 15+ years’ gap.

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