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<br><br>On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM, James Wynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">crushtv@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="EC_gmail_quote"><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
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Enamel: In BSG people have (and don't have) sex for<div class="EC_im"><br>
all sorts of human reasons, and have all sorts of<br>
human reactions. In Wolfe people apparently have<br>
sex to show what bad people they are, and suffer for it later.<br>
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Wynn: That's ridiculous. Do you really intend to compare the<div class="EC_im"><br>
writing of BSG to Wolfe in favor of BSG?<br>
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Enamel: Yup. In the case of male-female sexual relationships,<div class="EC_im"><br>
BSG beats the pants off of Wolfe. The motivations of the<br>
people involved and the effects the relationships have on<br>
them in BSG are more interesting and realistic than what<br>
Wolfe has shown.<br>
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Wolfe doesn't typically set his scenes in "naturalistic" settings so I think you are comparing things that don't map. </blockquote><div><br>TB: BSG is hardly naturalistic. Sci-fi (even the pulp sci-fi Wolfe uses for his own ends) is still about people, what happens to them, and how they deal with it.<br>*** <br><br></div><div>This sort of evades the point. Of course these are fantastic settings. It is the characters themselves that are more ordinary, and have more ordinary motivations, than the Wolfean characters you're trying to compare them to. And the more "ordinary" characters that Wolfe writes about are generally in the short stories, which you for some reason are explicitly excluding from comparison.<br><br>Even amongst the characters you do bring up, Latro for example at BEST provides no support for your main contention, and may show the exact opposite.<br></div></div><br /><hr />Windows Live™ SkyDrive: Get 25 GB of free online storage. <a href='http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_032009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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