(urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"

Christopher Simon kierkegaurdian at gmail.com
Thu Sep 5 15:36:06 PDT 2013


"Bujold tips her hand in the eloquence of her language (normally a good thing) and the attention to detail that only women would find attractive: balls, courts, military dress, palace intrigues, gossiping, and whispering in the corridors."

Kinda sexist too, isn't he?

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jeff Wilson" <jwilson at clueland.com>
Sent: ‎9/‎5/‎2013 5:52 PM
To: "urth at urth.net" <urth at urth.net>
Subject: (urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"

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.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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