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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:11:41 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Weekly blog links
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i want to apologize for my last remark, which I was very wrong to pass.
You are entitled to your opinion, of course, I was at the tail end of a
frazzled day.

I don't agree with you about Pirate Freedom, but these couple of sentences
do make more clear your problems with the book.

Again, my apologies.




.


> I thought I did in the post, but here it is again: I think the book
> (and several others) rely on the author's well-earned reputation for
> subtlety to mask or adorn what are essentially undeveloped
> pot-boilers. The time-travel aspect of Pirate Freedom illustrates this
> nicely, I think.
>
> Dozois's introduction to FHC in _Modern Classics of Science Fiction_
> (viewable via google books) might shed some additional
> sociology-of-publishing light on this.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>> So why don't you like the book, Jon? I understand from your article that
>> you don't like it: that is abundantly obvious. But I think a review of
>> this nature would be more useful if you would include a paragraph - even
>> half a paragraph - where you give your reasons for not liking it.
>>
>> Just a thought.
>>
>> Of course, you may just be a ouanquerre.
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>> I believe I came to that conclusion a few years ago myself.
>>>
>>> I recently made some disappointed comments on Pirate Freedom:
>>>
>>> http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=647
>>>
>>> How many of you agree that the Wolfe of Fifth Head, Peace, New Sun,
>>> Endangered Species (partially), and Death of Dr. Island and OS and OS
>>> is not even recognizably the same author as that of Pirate Freedom, An
>>> Evil Guest, or the Short Sun? (Shared concerns, yes. The quality of
>>> execution, however, is more like that of a bad imitator.)
>>>
>>>> There are quite a few advocates (including Dave Tallman on the wiki)
>>>> of
>>>> the
>>>> theory that the narrator is himself a puppet, dismissed by this
>>>> commentator.
>>>> I don't buy it myself either, buit it is slightly nagging...
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>>
>>>> Mo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # ~ # ~ #
>>>>
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