(urth) planetary problems
Stuart Hamm
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Tue Dec 28 09:58:40 PST 2010
There certainly are instances of characters jumping between short stories..when I first read "Ain't you 'most done" and got how it related to "Blueberry Jam" was my GW lightbulb moment.........
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--- On Tue, 12/28/10, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
To: urth at lists.urth.net
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 9:50 AM
Antonio Pedro Marques: >Besides the fact that it is *the* probable way a travel powered by the
> mind would work?
This seems right to me. I can't imagine checking star charts and making careful mathematical
calculations before engaging in dream-travel.
>James Wynn: Are you saying that the Rajan psychically emplants himself in the memories of other
>people or are you saying he's a meta-fictional character than can travel through Wolfe's own novels?
The latter seems like a very cool possibility. I think there may be some examples of this in classic
literature but for some reason all I can think of is R. Daneel Olivaw managing to insert his god-like
presence into three different Asimov universes, tying them together.
I get the sense that Gene Wolfe is more aware of himself as a god-like/demiurgical creator of his books than
Asimov. I'm not as familiar as I should be but I think James Joyce does something like this in his work.
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