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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

989.0. "_Fool on the Hill_ by Matt Ruff" by LABRYS::CONNELLY (Television must be destroyed!) Wed Jun 12 1991 23:47

Has anyone else read Matt Ruff's _Fool on the Hill_?  I'm about 100 pages
into it now and it seems...interesting.  Almost like a fantasy as it might
have been written by Richard Farina, if he was still alive.

								paul

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	I found it enjoyable - especially since I went to Cornell, and thus had an inside feel for it. It is a fantasy, although it's not labelled as such (I believe it's thrown in the general "fiction" category by the publisher). Definitely worth a read, IMHO. Brief synopsis: Fool on the Hill is a story about a young writer who has chosen to stay on in the city where he went to college, how he finds love, and his struggle against a growing inhuman evil. The cast includes students at the college (his friends and acquaintances), the dogs who roam the college, a race of fairies who also use the campus as their school & home, two Ithacops, the ocassional appearance by a heavenly being, a succubi of a less-destructive nature, and many, many more. Joe

    
    I found it enjoyable - especially since I went to Cornell, and thus
    had an inside feel for it.  It is a fantasy, although it's not
    labelled as such (I believe it's thrown in the general "fiction"
    category by the publisher).  Definitely worth a read, IMHO.
    
    Brief synopsis:  Fool on the Hill is a story about a young writer who
    has chosen to stay on in the city where he went to college, how he
    finds love, and his struggle against a growing inhuman evil.  The cast
    includes students at the college (his friends and acquaintances), the
    dogs who roam the college, a race of fairies who also use the campus as
    their school & home, two Ithacops, the ocassional appearance by a
    heavenly being, a succubi of a less-destructive nature, and many, many
    more.
    
    Joe