Palgrave History of Science Fiction

Marc Aramini · 07 Mar 2018, 16:14 · from 2018-March.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at gmail.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:14:45 -0000
Subject: (urth) Palgrave History of Science Fiction
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I think my editor will have time to get volume 2 ready to go in May, but I
am not sure. I haven't pressed because my pace on these last six essays has
been glacial.  You would think I would have the energy to just finish it ..
but geez there's always something. I predict the weakest essay will be on
An Evil Guest. I have adopted a more pedantic approach to these final
longer essays. Sometimes pedantry is a gift.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:19 PM, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl> wrote:

> Thanks anyway. It has been some time I read the books and much of them
> alas went over my head.
>
> When are your books coming out?
>
> Op 7-3-2018 om 00:41 schreef Marc Aramini:
>
> I don't want to start a round of Short Sun stuff (please, please, please)
> but here is my take on what he may or may not be talking about: some time
> after Horn falls into the pit on Blue, a Vanished Person who also calls
> himself Horn appears to speak to our narrator. That's the only new
> speciation that might have anything to do with Horn - the rest Roberts
> refers to are the false clues Wolfe is giving us that Silkhorn might be
> inhumi: (light, doesn't have a good appetite - is he truly a normal man
> with his ability to walk through the woods without being touched? (yes, he
> has made a deal with the vanished gods, who are trees)
>
> Having said that, Horn dies on Green, goes into Silk's body who has just
> faced Hyacinth's death on the whorl and has either psychologically
> retreated or mostly succeeded in killing himself, is a true amalgam of Horn
> and Silk as he writes On Blue's Waters in as the Rajan of Gaon. When he
> sits under the tree at the end of On Blue's Waters the majority of Horn's
> spirit goes into Babbie and becomes the beast with three horns, then it is
> Silk in denial for the rest of the book, Silk a man as he always was, until
> finally he is faced with the truth with the passage invoking the death of
> Hyacinth in the writings and has come home to a house that is not his.
>
> But hey anyone can believe what they want - I have zero interest in
> arguing this one at all. Just trying to address what he might be talking
> about.
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Ab de Vos <foxyab at casema.nl> wrote:
>
>> Adam Roberts is a literature professor as well as a science fiction
>> writer.
>>
>> In his "The History of Science Fiction" he devotes a short chapter to
>> Wolfe which he concludes by relating Wolfe to his (Roberts) main thesis
>> throughout the book: "Wolfe not only revisits many of the conventions of
>> 20th-century SF, he goes further back than that, tapping into the deep
>> roots of the genre, interrogating the many ways in which notions of
>> salvation are inflected by our much broader materialist understanding of
>> the cosmos."(page 439)
>>
>> After treating preliminaries his history starts in chapter 4:
>> "Seventeenth century SF". Central is the dialectic between matter, spirit
>> and technology. Very interesting. His chapter on Wolfe contains, I believe,
>> some errors. He says for instance:"Horn may or may not, mutate  into a new
>> form of life across the course of the trilogy. "(page 438) Anybody ring a
>> bell. I thought Silk was Horn but didn't want to give him up because then
>> he Horn would be dead as they were sharing the same body.
>>
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