planetary problems

James Wynn · 28 Dec 2010, 18:03 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:03:28 -0600
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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Okay, there's also "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" as 
well where a character in a short story reads a book of short stories, 
and they all know they are characters in a short story. But if someone 
is claiming that that is what is happening in The Book of the Short Sun, 
get ready for some aesthetic blowback. And I'll be puffing along side them.

u+16b9

On 12/28/2010 11:58 AM, Stuart Hamm wrote:
> There certainly are instances of characters jumping between short 
> stories..when I first read "Ain't you 'most done" and got how it 
> related to "Blueberry Jam" was my GW lightbulb moment.........
>
> --- On *Tue, 12/28/10, Lee Berman /<severiansola at hotmail.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     Antonio Pedro Marques: >Besides the fact that it is *the* probable
>     way a travel powered by the
>     > mind would work?
>
>     This seems right to me. I can't imagine checking star charts and
>     making careful mathematical
>     calculations before engaging in dream-travel.
>
>
>     >James Wynn: Are you saying that the Rajan psychically emplants
>     himself in the memories of other
>     >people or are you saying he's a meta-fictional character than can
>     travel through Wolfe's own novels?
>
>     The latter seems like a very cool possibility. I think there may
>     be some examples of this in classic
>     literature but for some reason all I can think of is R. Daneel
>     Olivaw managing to insert his god-like
>     presence into three different Asimov universes, tying them together.
>
>     I get the sense that Gene Wolfe is more aware of himself as a
>     god-like/demiurgical creator of his books than
>     Asimov. I'm not as familiar as I should be but I think James Joyce
>     does something like this in his work.
>
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