House Absolute

Jeff Wilson · 01 Dec 2008, 23:48 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:48:38 -0600
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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Son of Witz wrote:
>> Lane Haygood wrote:
>>> The book very much fits within the "Dying Earth" subgenre (cf. Jack 
>>> Vance) and is more closely related to planetary romance/science fantasy 
>>> than what we think of as "science fiction."
>>>  
>>> So basically, magic is real, the laws of physics and science can be bent 
>>> or broken by the supernatural, and reality is malleable.
>> That's still not a "get out of internal consistency free" card.
> 
> 
> Yo, but we're talking about a book where the space ships have masts and sails.
> It need not conform to science.

but the author includes an explanation for the sailing spaceships - 
there's no suggestion of why time passes so differently at the stone 
town, Casdoe's cabin, and Saltus.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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