(urth) Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain

[David Stockhoff]

On 4/15/2012 10:19 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
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> --- On Sun, 4/15/12, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
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>> From: David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 19: King Under the Mountain
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List"<urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Sunday, April 15, 2012, 7:03 PM
>> On 4/15/2012 9:11 PM, Allan Anderson
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Marc Aramini<marcaramini at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>>
>> wrote:
>>>       King Under the Mountai
>>>
>>>
>>> For some reason, I'm reminded both the of the computer
>> in "The Eyeflash Miracles" and the dwarf chessplayer
>> in...argh, can't remember the title, and I loaned my friend
>> the anthology. There's something to chew on there about the
>> dangers of central control and the awkward interface between
>> man and machine.
>>
>> Or is it about the awkward interface between man and the
>> universe?
>>
>> I'm reminded of the dwarf in the underground city in
>> Tracking Song.
> The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton?
>
> Yes, little dwarven derelicts/masterminds are lurking in a fair amount of Wolfe.  Sometimes they are technicians like the Fliers/ Sciathan.  I am almost up to re-reading Tracking Song - I dont remember it very well at present.
It's one of the more maddening stories, in my opinion.