New Wolfe Story at Subterranean Press

Solomon, Joshua · 27 Jun 2007, 09:46 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk (Solomon, Joshua)
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:46:43 +0100
Subject: (urth) New Wolfe Story at Subterranean Press
Message-ID: <C2A7F093.178D0%J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:35:36 -0400
> From: "Joel Sieh" <joel.sieh at gmail.com>
> 
> Roberta, Robber, Rover, and the Robinsons all have "Ro" names.  Julianne is
> the only exception.  I wonder if there's anything to that?

Yeah. I'm pretty sure we're supposed to think about Shakespeare's Romeo. And
Julianne is like Juliet.

> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:01:08 -0700
> From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com>
> 
> I am reminded a bit of Isaac Asimov's story, "Segregationist," a story
> about a surgeon who is opposed to the practice of putting machine
> parts into human bodies. The "shock ending" reveals that the surgeon
> is, himself, a robot (a fact important in the context of Asimov's robot
> stories, in which robots very much reflected the position of Blacks
> in mid-20th-century America).

Me too. Again, I think we are supposed to draw a parallel between racial
segregation and robot/human segregation. Note the exchange
"What do you get if you mix black and white?"
"Grey if you mean paint. Brown if you mean people."

bee
-- 
Joshua A. Solomon
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~solomon

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