(urth) Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles

[Marc Aramini]

"Narrov Valley" could very well be a direct influence.  I read that one years ago - Indian land?  I feel like it might have been a social commentary in some ways on the land that the Indians were given - just kept shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.  Need to look at it again.  I feel like it would be foolish to ignore the impact of contemporaneous short story writers like Lafferty, Ellison, and mayb even Davidson on Wolfe's shorter stuff, I just haven't read enough in the uncollected magazines of the time to really see it (classics are a different matter)

--- On Wed, 6/6/12, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Short Story 32: Three Million Square Miles
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Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 5:05 PM



On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com> wrote:



RESONANCE WITH OTHER WORKS: This very closely resembles the “lost in nature” theme of “Sweet Forest Maid”, and once again there is something just a little bit purposefully hidden about that natural world, almost as if it really is the world of fairies or of a natural pseudo-intelligence hostile to man.
The timing and subject matter remind me of one of R.A. Lafferty's more famous short stories, "Narrow Valley".

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