SF and Writing

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

OURSPACIA comments:
"Second: I'm way behind on reading e-mail, but I know that science fiction and
Pynchon was a topic a while back. It seems to me that this paragraph suggests
why GR might be placed in that category, whether intended or not. Just look
at the words. (There's probably some kind of criticism that is based on the
words used, isn't there?) Antigravity, mechanical cities, meteorite walls,
obsidian helix, drive belts and rollers, strange airship passages, louvers,
giant fins in the city mist. And throw in those exotic z-words, Zone, Zhlubb,
Enzian, and all those zeros, and rockets and the military."

Good points, though it also should be noted that many of the specific images
in that quoted passage evoke the setting of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS, which
provides a number of metaphorical resonances throughout the book (especially
where Greta's concerned)>


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)