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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">"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."<BR><BR>Kinda sexist too, isn't he?</DIV></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">Jeff Wilson</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">9/5/2013 5:52 PM</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">(urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"</SPAN><BR><BR></DIV>Paul Cook has a ranty go at books he doesn't consider SF, including BOTNS.<BR>He considers the presence of medieval and Arthurian tropes with poor sfnal<BR>world building like the Urth failing to wobble from the lack of a moon<BR>(!!) to be false advertising.<BR><BR>http://amazingstoriesmag.com/2013/09/science-fiction-science-fiction/<BR><BR>Alas, the site editor has blocked comments after a torrent of<BR>coutner-ranting, but has offered to publish a suitably impersonal<BR>counter-column submission.<BR><BR>Would anyone like to join me in compiling some quotes and citations that<BR>poke holes in some of his underinformed opinions?<BR><BR>in particular:<BR><BR>- there's no moon, so the earth should wobble<BR>- vulcanism has ceased<BR>- mountain raising (tectonics) has ceased<BR>- extreme antiquity (millions or billions of years)<BR>- subduction zones have stopped removing carbon from the atmosphere<BR>- events in vast antiquity not referred to, antiquity "not used"<BR>- "Book Two has a long fairy tale inserted in the middle of the novel<BR>that goes absolutely nowhere and adds nothing to the novel"<BR><BR>It would be best to stick to the original 4 volumes and the pre-Urth<BR>short-stories if we can.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Jeff Wilson - < jwilson@clueland.com ><BR>A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<BR>< http://www.tamut.edu/cil ><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Urth Mailing List<BR>To post, write urth@urth.net<BR>Subscription/information: http://www.urth.net<BR></BODY></HTML>