Mary Stewart

Absolutely.

And I love, you know, as I've been writing this book and collecting more, because I always had pieces of, But if you especially have like a favorite writer, like I loved Mary Stewart.

So I tend to have one artist because even though Mary Stewart had several editions, you know, like the paperbacks, for example, will have like Harry Bennett covers.

And so I had a lot of Harry Bennett covers without realizing it.

Romance lovers the world over that love old clinch covers, love some Robert McGinnis.

And so there's reputations of this genre that come with like men writing as women who are churning these things out instead of the women who write, because the women who write also have very different main characters and they are writing women who are professionals.

A lot of times they're professionals on vacation.

Like Mary Stewart loves a professional woman on vacation.

A real good love is hard to find.

The number one selling book was The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart.

The top movie was The Way We Were.

Takes place during World War II, and Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford, they find out that physical attraction just isn't enough to cover, uh, cover for, uh, fundamental social beliefs.

Yeah.

So shall we go for Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave-

Yes

... because it was there?

Anyway, I think that was, uh, that was pretty bang on, wasn't it?

Mm.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave.

Get yourself a little Celtic harp and, uh, have a bit of fun.

Fleeing the modern Irish, the fairies have sought refuge in the barrows or hollow hills.

The Hollow Hills is also the title of Mary Stewart's 1973 novel.

One more song from this album, The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.

This was the name of a science fiction film released in 1963.

You move from grand epics to logistics.

Which pivots us perfectly to Mary Stewart and Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Let's start with Stewart's book, The Crystal Cave, published in 1970.

This is the absolute inversion of T.H. White's approach.

If you want political maneuvering at maximum volume, read George R.R. Martin.

If you only have one week, pick up Guy Gavriel Kay or Lois McMaster Bujold.

And if you think you hate fantasy but you love history and logistics, Mary Stewart is your surprise doorway in.

Just pay attention to the editions.