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9th February 2010, 04:05 AM
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| Greg Egan: Closer
__________________ " Reality is relative.Devils,evil spirits,witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them.Just as God is to the people that believe in Him.When people live their lives by their beliefs,objective reality is almost irrelevant..." Chocky, John Wyndham  |
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12th February 2010, 05:34 PM
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| Great story. The idea of being able to leave your body behind appears again in Wang's Carpets and the briefly mentioned "menstrual cycle...abandoned decades before" is the entire theme in Connie Willis's short story Even the Queen. Egan's scientific esoterica is so challenging, but only just enough to make it really fun to read. I think I'm going to read as much of his short fiction as I can before I try one of his novels.
__________________ "interweaving, diverse, not to say conflictive emphases and a broad spectrum of items to form a dynamic exchange of parallel and self-eclipsing spatial and temporal zones." ~Paul Klee website |
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15th February 2010, 08:52 PM
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I liked the whole point of the story,everything they tried out and when they were with "themselves",it was like being alone.
__________________ " Reality is relative.Devils,evil spirits,witches and so on became real enough to the people who believed in them.Just as God is to the people that believe in Him.When people live their lives by their beliefs,objective reality is almost irrelevant..." Chocky, John Wyndham |
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