Parallel worlds
Andrew Dinn
andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Thu Jan 23 10:30:59 CST 1997
John Boylan writes:
> Hey, Nabokov wrote an alternate history novel -- 'Ada : Or Ardor, a
> Family Chronicle.'
What, you mean `Ada' is science fiction?!
It certainly contains some fine fictional science. But I shudder at
the thought of seeing it on the shelf next to L Ron Hubbard (or worse
still `Grimnor, Demon Slayer, meets the Elven Kings of Banalite').
Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say: I flow.
To the rushing water speak: I am.
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