Tzadkiel/Melek Taus

Jeff Wilson · 14 Jul 2010, 19:22 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:22:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) Tzadkiel/Melek Taus
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On 7/14/2010 6:32 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> I always suspected Wolfe of deliberately using pulp cliches in BotNS. I
> had no idea he applied the principle so thoroughly. It almost has the
> effect of reading about ancient, clever technologies like ballistae and
> water clocks.

yes, exactly! only more briefly.   IIRC, Lem does a bit of this in his 
CYBERIAD.

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