A Capella Darkover edition by Elisabeth Waters Literature Fiction eBooks
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Everyone has at least one talent - but sometimes it's not what they think it is. Capella Ridenow was convinced that she could sing, but Gavin Delleray, who had been forced to try to teach her the soprano part of the cantata he had just written, was very certain that she couldn't - as was everyone else who heard her.
This story was originally published in the Darkover anthology SNOWS OF DARKOVER, Apr 1994.
A Capella Darkover edition by Elisabeth Waters Literature Fiction eBooks
Lady Floria loved music and was hoping to catch a least the last part of the rehearsal of the new cantata. What she heard "sounded rather as though someone had made a viol using catgut strings without bothering to detach -- or even sedate -- the cat."As if this wasn't bad enough, the perpetrator of these sounds was convinced that she could sing, that she was loved by all who met her and that she could ride any horse ever foaled since, as she told everyone she met, "All animals love me."
When the composer finally exhausts his patience and refuses to let her ruin his work -- "no matter whose bastard she might be distantly related to", she decides that it is all Floria's fault and swears revenge.
As with so much of her life, her revenge produces the opposite of what she intends and she storms out to take further revenge, only to have that produce a happy ending for all concerned -- including her.
The Darkover series was begun in 1960 by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley and has been continued since her death by a number of authors. It still has a slight
feel of 60's science fiction, but writers like Waters or Mercedes Lackey
easily overcome that. The one major drawback of sampling the series randomly in fairly recent short stories is the lack of a back story and a glossary of terms. Depending on how much the reader's enjoyment depends on being able to visualize the events, it could be very frustrating or just mildly annoying.
In this case, the first few paragraphs tend toward the former, but once past the unexplained names and terms, the rest of the story is easily read and appreciated.
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A Capella Darkover edition by Elisabeth Waters Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Lady Floria loved music and was hoping to catch a least the last part of the rehearsal of the new cantata. What she heard "sounded rather as though someone had made a viol using catgut strings without bothering to detach -- or even sedate -- the cat."
As if this wasn't bad enough, the perpetrator of these sounds was convinced that she could sing, that she was loved by all who met her and that she could ride any horse ever foaled since, as she told everyone she met, "All animals love me."
When the composer finally exhausts his patience and refuses to let her ruin his work -- "no matter whose bastard she might be distantly related to", she decides that it is all Floria's fault and swears revenge.
As with so much of her life, her revenge produces the opposite of what she intends and she storms out to take further revenge, only to have that produce a happy ending for all concerned -- including her.
The Darkover series was begun in 1960 by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley and has been continued since her death by a number of authors. It still has a slight
feel of 60's science fiction, but writers like Waters or Mercedes Lackey
easily overcome that. The one major drawback of sampling the series randomly in fairly recent short stories is the lack of a back story and a glossary of terms. Depending on how much the reader's enjoyment depends on being able to visualize the events, it could be very frustrating or just mildly annoying.
In this case, the first few paragraphs tend toward the former, but once past the unexplained names and terms, the rest of the story is easily read and appreciated.
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