(urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"
David Stockhoff
dstockhoff at verizon.net
Thu Sep 5 15:29:33 PDT 2013
"No moon"? Am I missing something?
Also, this guy has written nothing I've ever heard of. I did find this,
however:
http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/sf-writer-paul-cook-warns-of-science-fictions-infection-by-girl-cooties/
On 9/5/2013 5:52 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> Paul Cook has a ranty go at books he doesn't consider SF, including BOTNS.
> He considers the presence of medieval and Arthurian tropes with poor sfnal
> world building like the Urth failing to wobble from the lack of a moon
> (!!) to be false advertising.
>
> http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/09/science-fiction-science-fiction/
>
> Alas, the site editor has blocked comments after a torrent of
> coutner-ranting, but has offered to publish a suitably impersonal
> counter-column submission.
>
> Would anyone like to join me in compiling some quotes and citations that
> poke holes in some of his underinformed opinions?
>
> in particular:
>
> - there's no moon, so the earth should wobble
> - vulcanism has ceased
> - mountain raising (tectonics) has ceased
> - extreme antiquity (millions or billions of years)
> - subduction zones have stopped removing carbon from the atmosphere
> - events in vast antiquity not referred to, antiquity "not used"
> - "Book Two has a long fairy tale inserted in the middle of the novel
> that goes absolutely nowhere and adds nothing to the novel"
>
> It would be best to stick to the original 4 volumes and the pre-Urth
> short-stories if we can.
>
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