{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2865", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 2865, "subject": "Pratchett and Wolfe", "messages": 1, "voices": 1, "first": "2001-12-11T17:31:36+00:00", "last": "2001-12-11T17:31:36+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Tony Ellis", "address": "littlesense at necronomicon.co.uk" }, "date": "2001-12-11T17:31:36+00:00", "subject": "Pratchett and Wolfe", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is a multi-part message in MIME format.\n\n------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C18269.AF15C120\n\nRussell Wodell:" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "\"Brutha, with his photographic memory, and the role of torture in the world\nechoes Gene Wolfe's _The Book of the New Sun_ (1980-83) sequence.\"" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "This certainly never occurred to me when reading \"Small Gods,\" Pratchett's\nmost sustained attack on organized religion, especially the Catholic\nInquisition, and I don't remember Pratchett ever mentioning Wolfe in ay\ncontext whatsoever." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Well, Pratchett does subtitle it \"The Book of the New Son\"... :-)\n\nWhat I've always wondered is whether it was intended as an actual Up Yours to TBOTNS, or simply as a skit on it. Pratchett has spoofed plenty of other SF novels, but always affectionately. Here, it's hard to tell whether the attack is aimed solely at organised religion, or also at writers who attempt to justify it.\n\nIn any case, it's not his happiest book, and certainly my least favourite.\n\n------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C18269.AF15C120\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Russell Wodell:

>\"Brutha, with his photographic memory, and the role of torture in the \nworld
>echoes Gene Wolfe's _The Book of the New Sun_ (1980-83) \nsequence.\"

>This certainly never occurred to me when reading \"Small \nGods,\" Pratchett's
>most sustained attack on organized religion, \nespecially the Catholic
>Inquisition, and I don't remember Pratchett ever \nmentioning Wolfe in ay
>context whatsoever.

Well, Pratchett does subtitle it \"The Book of the \nNew Son\"... :-)

What I've always wondered is whether it was \nintended as an actual Up Yours to TBOTNS, or simply as a skit on it. \nPratchett has spoofed plenty of other SF novels, but always affectionately. \nHere, it's hard to tell whether the attack is aimed solely at organised \nreligion, or also at writers who attempt to justify it.

In any case, it's not his \nhappiest book, and certainly my least \nfavourite.

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