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Eric Bourland · 07 Mar 2018, 16:20
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From: eb at hwaet.com (Eric Bourland) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:20:03 -0000 Subject: (urth) Palgrave History of Science Fiction In-Reply-To: <CAF1072yYeZ+2gC2aTagz=vp_nGXkniFwp6uN3adpq8WENZB5kA at mail.gmail.com> References: <9cec3317-ddf7-471f-3157-e17e77fdd8da at casema.nl> <CAF1072yUbVcdZz416ha3QMqQJ3+rYtwV5JhuUdkM=ApzBN1-HQ at mail.gmail.com> <dd44b423-17f8-5d2c-d7d9-e24c6e2abf69 at casema.nl> <CAF1072yYeZ+2gC2aTagz=vp_nGXkniFwp6uN3adpq8WENZB5kA at mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <811d4585-c944-c348-5de0-ca02d2c7b267 at hwaet.com> For what it's worth, An Evil Guest is one of my favorite of his books. For a few years maybe it was my favorite. I've got a whole disquisition about it, which inevitably prompts vigorous eye-rolling, so I'll spare you. ;-) Looking forward to vol. 2. Eric On 3/7/2018 11:14 AM, Marc Aramini wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Urth Mailing List >> To post, writeurth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> >> Subscription/information:http://www.urth.net > > > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net <mailto:urth at urth.net> > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Urth Mailing List > To post, write urth at urth.net > Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net -- Eric Bourland eb at hwaet.com https://www.hwaet.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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