(urth) House Absolute

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Thu Dec 4 23:16:10 PST 2008


Yes, he will start writing this totally egregious academic prose. I have
never been able to read those passages. Every third line until it is
over....


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> Delany's "reading protocol" has less to do with actual science than with a
> willingness to allow language to affect our imaginations in ways that
> break usual possibilities.
>
> In some ways, it's the opposite of having a shared scientific background.
> It's more about readers being willing to allow their sense of "reality"
> (or, in this case, "scientific possibility") to be altered with a single
> word or phrase.
>
> He's got an example of a hypothetical story that starts out with the
> sentence: "The red sun is high, the blue low." And he talks about how a
> science fiction audience reacts to this kind of sentence by constructing a
> kind of consistency (or "world") around the given data/words rather than
> expecting it to conform.
>
> But that's from his early stuff. Later, he got all deconstruction-y.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> To: The Urth Mailing List <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:40:11 PM
> Subject: Re: (urth) House Absolute
>
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>> There is a Delany list, but it doesn't get into theory discussions very
>> often,
>> alas...
>
> Delany's  the champion of the SF reading protocols theory, right? I
> suppose I am advocating a weak version of that, in that serious science
> fiction writers ought to be informed about such science as is commonly
> found elsewhere in the genre, which can easilly be presumed to include the
> Guiness Book of Records and Asmiov's corpus of non-fictional work.
>
> -- Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >
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