Re: OT: SF: Le Guin, Elgin, Spinrad, etc.
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 9, 2004, 23:37 |
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In a message dated 2004:04:09 07:02:55 AM, dirk_elzinga@BYU.EDU writes:
>There are two more generation ship stories that I can think of that
>weren't on the list (I'm sure there are more; it's just that I've read
>these two)
Naturally there are many more :) The whole "generation ship" idea is
practically a "common trope" if not a subgenre in sci-fi.
>Samuel Delany _The Ballad of Beta-2_
>
>This is a novella which begins with a cryptic poem which the main
>character "decodes" in the course of the story. It's told after the
>fact; the ship, the Beta-2, is a museum piece.
Hmm, I have heard of that one, but haven't read it.
>Gene Wolfe _The Book of the Long Sun_
>
>This is a four-volume novel about a young priest who gradually comes to
>realize where it is he actually lives and who the real objects of
>worship are.
The list I quoted was made around 1989 or so... so evidently Gene Wolfe's
works in this area were not yet well known or the list compilers were not
duly impressed.
>Filled with a typically Lupine assortment of strange
>characters.
LMAO.
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