[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What DVD's are you watching?
Just finished Caprica. The original Life on Mars and Defiance are next. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Uncle Ruckus belsidus2...@... wrote: Watchmen Director's Cut Straight From the Projects How We Did It Ken Burns' The Civil War
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Role call: What are you reading?
China Mieville's The City and The City Interesting, so far. It took me a while to get back the names, but I am enjoying it. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Kelwyn ravena...@... wrote: I am reading Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan and thoroughly enjoying her post apocalypse novel. It is eerily precognitive about the incipient dangers of giving too much of our lives over to smart tech. ~rave! http://twitter.com/ravenadal http://theworldebon.blogspot.com
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What was the last SF novel you read that made you go WOW!?
A belated answer: Air by Geoff Ryman This is the 3rd book of his that I've loved. There were so many literary problems that he was able to overcome in this short novel...including the lost of viewpoint character for several chapters. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal ravena...@... wrote: What was the last SF novel you read that made you go WOW! And, by that, I mean the last novel that made your head spin around. For me it was William Gibson's Neuromancer and that was published in 1984, twenty-five years ago! By-the-by, I am only interested in novel novels - do not summit graphic novels. Thanks, ~rave!
[SciFiNoir Lit] December interviews
December was quite a month--when I could find an interview with Nnedi Okorafor in Locus and an interview with Nalo Hopkinson in The New York Review of Science Fiction. Bravo!
[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: a literary/film question
Well, thanks for giving me a wow moment this morning. You make me want to go back and read the books. And it helps me to understand why Ryman felt free to experiment even further with Was. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, ravenadal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of the events and characters of the book resemble the actual political personalities, events and ideas of the 1890s.[1] The 1902 stage adaptation mentioned, by name, President Theodore Roosevelt, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, and other political celebrities.[1] (No real people are mentioned by name in the book.) Even the title has been interpreted as alluding to a political reality: oz. is an abbreviation for ounce, a unit familiar to those who fought for a 16 to 1 ounce ratio of silver to gold in the name of bimetallism, though Baum stated he got the name from a file cabinet labeled A-N and O-Z. .. .. ..
[SciFiNoir Lit] a literary/film question
So, I am reading a review of The Tin Man in my local paper. The article is actually from the NY Times, so I guess that you can find it there. And I run up against the following: Baum said that he sought simply to produce a modern fairy tale, but his symbolism was hardly subtle. The novel came to be understood as an allegory for debates about turn-of-the-century monetary policy stemming from outrage over the subjugation of agricultural interests to the imperialism of bankers on the East Coast. (In the book, unlike in the 1939 film, Dorothy's shoes are made of silver, not rubies. The notion of silver shoes ambling on a yellow brick road is thought to stand for Baum's advocacy of bimetallism, a shift from the gold standard that would have given farmers access to cheaper money.) Now, I've come to love literary criticism. Reading Torah commentaries uses the same muscles. As I exercise one, I exercise the other. But HUH? The Wizard of Oz was about monetary policy? Do we have some degreed folks here who can explain that one to me? I am very confused. And this from a person who loves Was--Ryman's rewrite of the OZ story.
