Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles

Gwern Branwen · 07 Jun 2012, 00:05 · from 2012-June.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 20:05:03 -0400
Subject: (urth) Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ****
>
> RESONANCE WITH OTHER WORKS: This very closely resembles the ?lost in
> nature? theme of ?Sweet Forest Maid?, and once again there is something
> just a little bit purposefully hidden about that natural world, almost as
> if it really is the world of fairies or of a natural pseudo-intelligence
> hostile to man.
>

The timing and subject matter remind me of one of R.A. Lafferty's more
famous short stories, "Narrow Valley".

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gwern
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