Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?

António Pedro Marques · 14 Dec 2011, 16:03 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:03:39 +0000
Subject: (urth) Gummed-Up Works or Got Lives?
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Daniel Petersen wrote (14-12-2011 14:24):
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com
> <mailto:gerry at bindweed.com>> wrote:
>
>> *From:* Ant?nio Pedro Marques <mailto:entonio at gmail.com>
>
>>> Curious bit here: I've never got the 's&s' feeling from any of the
>>> Sun books, not even NS.
>
>> Same here (...)
>
> Yeah, I saw right away it was 'science fantasy', but the sword, cloak,
> long journeys on foot, healings (and other 'miracles' I doubt are
> reducible to 'technologies we don't understand'), monsters (even though
> you eventually realise they're aliens), etc. all give a SnS *feel* I
> think.  Surely others have thought this?  I thought it was kind of
> obvious, given, and sort of celebrated.  Hm.

Maybe the *look* is there, obvious and given, at least in the first pages, 
but for me the *feel* never sets in (and the more the story progresses, the 
least chance it has, as even the look is torn early on).

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