Digest urth.v028.n147

Josh Levitan · 05 Feb 2000, 04:42 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Josh Levitan" <josh_levitan at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n147
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 20:42:30 PST
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Alga wrote, re: "The Ziggurat":

>When I referred to Tiptree and Russ, I was thinking of this story, but eve=
n=20
>more centrally of Tiptree's "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" and Russ's=20
>"When It Changed."

Ziggurat reminded me very much of "Houston, Houston."  It seems almost like=20
a reversal of that story, with female astronauts coming into the past on=20
Earth, the primitive male killing most of them, and a "happy" ending where=20
the female is left to the mercies of the man.  It's interesting that Wolfe=20
uses the Tiptree reference in the previous story, not in this one, which=20
recalled her much more.

Narwhal
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