Excerpt from "The Land Across"

Antonin Scriabin · 22 Oct 2013, 16:22 · from 2013-October.txt.gz

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From: kierkegaurdian at gmail.com (Antonin Scriabin)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:22:30 -0400
Subject: (urth) Excerpt from "The Land Across"
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?You see how nice to you we are. You do not like the food, you say it is
rotten, you will go. He give better so you stay. Other things, too.?

I said nothing. I was watching a girl who had peeked around the corner.


Such creepy, minimalist writing.  I love it.


Also, Daniel, I miss your Lafferty and Wolfe blogs!


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <
danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow.  Feels a bit like Swift meets Kafka.  (With, interestingly, a hint of
> China Mieville thrown in.)
>
> Very disorienting and weird.  The dudes with lanterns felt almost
> numinous.
>
> Seems the narrator has shifted into a parallel world?  (Feels resonant yet
> very different from There Are Doors.)
>
> -DOJP
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> A bit of the forthcoming book has been posted to the Tor Dot Com site.
>>
>> http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/10/the-land-across-excerpt-gene-wolfe
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
>> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
>> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
>> Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
>> http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>>
>>
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