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For those who want the Last Unicorn DVD, a note from Neil Gaiman's blog:

And I keep meaning to mention that if you order a copy the new special edition Last Unicorn DVD from the Conlan Press site, half the money goes to Peter Beagle, and your copy will be signed, as opposed to ordering it from anywhere else in which case it won't be signed by anyone, and Peter won't see a penny. http://www.conlanpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc

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Mom is ordering it for me when we get home. Happy Birthday to me :)I'm excited because the DVD I have really sucks ass and my vhs tapes are starting to show their age.

Cool. :D

I was never into the movie, and the book always depressed me as a kid. XD

Hmms. I think you are just slightly older then me, so that may make a difference. As I was growing up I always had in My Little Ponies, The Last Unicorn, or The Fantastic Adventures of Unico. I didn't even know there was a novel of The Last Unicorn until junior high. Which is sad because I know I checked out everything in my library that had the word "unicorn" in the title, as I repeated picked up that horrible Madeline L'Engle book the Young Unicorns. So then I got to read the book and I absolutely loved it. (Not that the movie adaptation wasn't good.) It was nice to see Death and the curses (both Lir and Schmendrik's) as they really added more to the characters.

i might be the only person who doesn't remember this from when i was younger ;;

I hope this DVD is unedited. The FHE version edited out Molly's "Damn You!" in a very obvious manner, and it makes me crazy. (Not to mention having NIL for bonus features...)

I think I watched that film every week for at least a year when I was little...

Then I discovered the book. It's one of the very few books I have been able to re-read every year since I was about 9, and find something new in it every time.

For some reason, I never worked out that Peter S Beagle might have written other things too, until a few years ago when I randomly Amazoned his name. Now I'm trying to ration myself to one book a year, so I can savour them properly. :-) Just finished The Line Between, his latest short-story collection... which I really shouldn't have started reading in a public place. Sitting with tears rolling silently down one's face in the center of Starbucks tends to attract worried inquiries from nice young men...

I have a feeling that my visit to the Conlan Press website is going to prove expensive. DVD! Audio book! Signed copies!!! *dies from the squee*

I'm actually debating his book about the episode of Next Gen Trek he wrote. That was one of the few episodes of it that I actually liked, and I lvoe eharing about the writing of things. I'm just unsure how long it's going to be - if it's a 10-page essay plus the script, eh. If it's a 100+ page book plus the script, cool! Either way, it's signed if I preorder it, so that's certainly a positive factor.

It's rather a lot of stuff, actually. Multiple annotated drafts of the script, the treatments he sent them for both NEXT GENERATION and DEEP SPACE NINE that did not get picked up, interviews with TREK staffers who worked on the show or with him, the original treatment by a different set of writers that is mentioned in the credits (even though Peter was never shown that one and came up with his version of the idea independently), and finally a lot of analytical commentary on the various incarnations of the TREK universe itself.

But it won't be out until much later this year, so there is no rush.

-- Connor Cochran
Business Manager to Peter S. Beagle

Thanks for dropping by and letting me know! :D That sounds really good - I love behind-the-scenes-type stuff about writing.

You are quite welcome. Thanks for your interest!

-- Connor

Oh wow, I MUST order this now!

(really, I should just bite the bullet and put everything on the website into my shopping cart...)

Oh, have you seen that you can get The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version? It's the original 80 page manuscript from when he first began writing TLU, but goes off in a very different direction.
I've only read his Tamsin, which I enjoyed after the first third of the book, and I started The Innkeeper's Song but never finished it. What was your favorite story in The Line Between? I liked Two Hearts obviously, but I also really enjoyed Salt Wine and the Sherlock Holmes one.

I too thought Salt Wine and the Sherlock Holmes one were the stand-out stories in the collection. They were both pitch-perfect, wonderful gems. I have a feeling that I'll be coming back to A Dance For Emilia, though - for me, it was overshadowed by Salt Wine and the Holmes story (the former was more compelling in a what-happens-next-way, while the latter was just such sheer gleeful fun) on first read-through, but I think it will probably be the story that most rewards re-reading.

As a PSB fan, I loved Two Hearts and the fox story more, just because they let me spend more time with the characters. And the Goro, oh, the Goro! It was fascinating how the fox was so much more, hmm, amoral than he was in The Innkeeper's Song - I'm going to have to re-read that book to see if it comes across differently now that I know more about him.

Two Hearts had me sobbing openly in the middle of Starbucks. Beautiful, beautiful ending. Perfect. But it does rely on knowledge of The Last Unicorn - it's a true sequel, not a stand-alone.

I am massively excited from reading PSB's forewords to the stories - it seems like he must be working on SEVERAL new novels! *bounces*

Thanks for the tip!

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