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tales of nevèrÿon
I spent some time this weekend reading Tales of Nevèrÿon, one of the books in Samuel Delany's Nevèrÿon series. Delaney populates this book with by fantasy-character archetypes (the hulking slave, the child empress, the old woman of the village), but then proceeds to focus more on the invisible flows that surround them (power, language, capital). A handful of allusions to critical theory are sprinkled in for flavor. So far, it's brilliant: like leaving Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and some Foucault book out on your radiator all night only to wake up in the morning and find that they've melted together into a single text. For a while, it seemed like Wesleyan University Press was keeping this and the other books in print, although it doesn't appear on their most recent list. Further reading: poking around online reveals some science-fiction novels and stories that incorporate linguistics. (And any time I think of Delany I am reminded that I should read more Bellona Times.) Labels: book_commentary, science_fiction
Monday, February 04, 2002
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