I'll try to avoid direct spoilers but... At 01:05 AM 4/3/02 -0700, Kevin S. wrote: >Sean kane wrote: > > The other "this is cool" moments for me involved reading nearly word for > > word things I'd heard Brin say at various talks in the past. > > Kinda gave a > > whole new meaning to "hearing the author's voice" in a story. > >Yes, there were quite a few of his transparency ideas in there. What other >stuff did he use? > >Do you think that Mr. Brin is becoming more of a "message" author? I know >his books have always had implicit themes in them, but this one seems to >have more thematic content than most. (Not that that's a bad thing. It's >just an observation.)
There were some pretty strong IAAMOAC moments in there as well I thought. I remember a talk where Brin went on about how heros in movies make some pretty stupid moves for the sake of the story (or perhaps more accurately lazy writing), so hearing a character directly say it was interesting to me. Admittedly, it was maybe a bit distracting from the story to hear the author's voice in my head, but I didn't mind. I'm not really sure if Brin is becoming more of a message author or if I'm just more familiar with his messages outside of fiction so see them more clearly in his fictional works. Maybe it's more there are strong theme books and weaker theme books? I have to admit I'd not given it a lot of thought before... Sean
