(urth) Excerpt from "The Land Across"

[Antonin Scriabin]

If I remember correctly, Able of the High Heart thinks back to his Mac
towards the beginning of *The Knight, *when he is remembering his previous
life in the "real world"*.  *They may be few and far between, but
references to modern technology can be found in some of his more recent
novels.


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern at gwern.net> wrote:

> Curious. Comes off as a mish-mash of a Cold war anti-Communist
> potboiler and the Dracula myth (Transylvania, national paranoid fear
> of 'the Turks') with some jarring contemporary features like mention
> of an iPhone (an iPhone? in a Gene Wolfe novel? I never thought I'd
> see the day) - jarring because the tone of the narration is so Wolfe
> and no young or even middle-aged American talks/thinks/writes like the
> narrator does. I also don't know what to make of the Kleon/Cleon
> naming.
>
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