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Okay, there's also "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" as
well where a character in a short story reads a book of short
stories, and they all know they are characters in a short story. But
if someone is claiming that that is what is happening in The Book of
the Short Sun, get ready for some aesthetic blowback. And I'll be
puffing along side them.<br>
<br>
u+16b9<br>
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On 12/28/2010 11:58 AM, Stuart Hamm wrote:
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">There certainly are
instances of characters jumping between short
stories..when I first read "Ain't you 'most done" and got
how it related to "Blueberry Jam" was my GW lightbulb
moment.........<br>
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--- On <b>Tue, 12/28/10, Lee Berman <i><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com"><severiansola@hotmail.com></a></i></b>
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<div class="plainMail">Antonio Pedro Marques:
>Besides the fact that it is *the* probable way a
travel powered by the <br>
> mind would work?<br>
<br>
This seems right to me. I can't imagine checking star
charts and making careful mathematical<br>
calculations before engaging in dream-travel.<br>
<br>
<br>
>James Wynn: Are you saying that the Rajan
psychically emplants himself in the memories of other
<br>
>people or are you saying he's a meta-fictional
character than can travel through Wolfe's own novels?<br>
<br>
The latter seems like a very cool possibility. I think
there may be some examples of this in classic<br>
literature but for some reason all I can think of is
R. Daneel Olivaw managing to insert his god-like<br>
presence into three different Asimov universes, tying
them together.<br>
<br>
I get the sense that Gene Wolfe is more aware of
himself as a god-like/demiurgical creator of his books
than <br>
Asimov. I'm not as familiar as I should be but I think
James Joyce does something like this in his work.<br>
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