The Unicorn Girl (Greenwich Village Trilogy, book 2) by Michael Kurland

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Unicorn Girl (Greenwich Village Trilogy, book 2) by Michael Kurland

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[redbird]

The "[embed]" didn't, and it looks like there are some copy-and-paste errors here; would you like a more detailed report?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

:( No but apparently I need one.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

One bit rings oddly:

Unlike The Butterfly Kid, it riffs on alternate history rather than alien invasion tropes, Kurland turns to alternate history.

Seems like you started to redraft that sentence, but didn't quite finish.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

sigh

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

"This novel is exactly the cheerful light comedy it set out to be."

High praise for a Tears review--I may try it.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I thought that Kurland left out the good parts of both Anderson & Garrett.

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

Also this:
"alternate history is only a very part of Kurland’s oeuvre"

...only a very part....?

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

very small part?

[owlmirror36.livejournal.com]

In fact, of the more than two dozen novels Kurland has written, only The Unicorn Girl, The Whenabouts of Burr, and his two sequels to Garrett’s Lord Darcy books are alternate history.

I may be misremembering, but isn't Perchance also an alternate-history story, or one that has alternate-history as an important plot point?

ETA: (Or maybe rather, parallel universes with alternate histories, which applies to The Unicorn Girl as well, IIRC)

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Well, it's definitely travel through multiple alternate universes: can't recall if any of them have working magic or not. I now find it a bit of a tease, since it seemed to be setting things up for sequels which never came.