A Different Light [Paperback]

Elizabeth A. Lynn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2000

5th in the popular magical series

Editorial Reviews

Review

A magical...entertaining cross-genre tale of murder and betrayal. -- Library Journal

For fantasy and mystery readers looking for something different. -- Voya

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Ace; First Thus edition (December 5, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441007902
• ISBN-13: 978-0441007905
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,169,331 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touching sci-fi story, June 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Different Light (Paperback)

I admit I'm not a fan of sci-fi and the first time I saw it, I was kind of ticked off by the cover. If it wasn't by Elizabeth A. Lynn, I'd have left it alone. But when I started reading it in the bookstore, I just HAD to take it home. It's a wonderful story of a painter, Jimson Alleca, who's fate is to die during a time when a being may achieve immortality. He may live for thirty more years if he stays in his world, but he longs for freedom and wishes to find his love, Russel O'Neill. And maybe, just maybe, he'll also find a cure for his sickness. A truly wonderful story that can only be written by Elizabeth A. Lynn. I read this almost everyday.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book so good a chain of bookstores was named after it!, February 12, 2001

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Julia Walter (Cobleskill, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Different Light (Paperback)

Unlike the other reviewer I am a regular reader of sf & f, especially feminist and/ or GLBT-themed sf & f. I love(d) this book!!! I loved it when I first bought it in the late 70's and it is not at all dated. (I re-read it last year and was touched and amazed and overjoyed all over again.) The love story, the space opera and the primary conflict between the two men is as real and vital now as it was when it was first written.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Light is Beautiful Science Fiction, February 14, 2007

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Robroy A. Mccandless (Riverside, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Different Light (Paperback)

Elizabeth Lynn bring a poetry to the often hard-scrabble of science fiction. In a future near-perfect, renown artist Jimson Alleca suffers from a debilitating disease that forces him to remain planet-bound while his lover leaves to experience the different light. When Jimson received a post-card equivelant of a message, he elects to take his life into his own hands, travel off-planet. It is, for Jimson, the journey of a lifetime, as he explores "the hype" meets and learns from "spacers" and even manages to find his first love.

Lynn's prose has a soft elegance to it, flowing from metaphor and allusion into the reality of the surrounding science fiction world that seems so real and has so much depth. There always seems more to explore, more to see, and more to do.