GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[Vaska Tumir]

Yes!
Of course it's a sci-fi story -- why didn't I see that before?

But since you prefer to view postmodernism as a transhistorical category,
why not revive the original name for this kind of writing: satire?  It's
really too bad the term was shrunk up to fit only such a small aspect of
what "satura" once meant.  And a fine "baggy monster" the genre was -- and
is.

Vaska

"jbor" said:

> to the question about "The
> Story of Byron the Bulb" which, as Kai pointed out, does stand by itself
as
> a short story pretty well (and so gives one pause to consider whether that
> was the way it was originally written and intended, only subsequently
> inserted into that problematic fourth section of *GR*, modified to fit of
> course, much like 'Under the Rose' was for *V.*, but even so hardly having
> anything much to do in terms of character, setting etc with the rest of
the
> novel), I'd classify it as pretty standard detached, omniscient narrative
> fare of your realist or naturalist ilk. It's fiction, of course, a
paranoid
> fantasy, inspired by a drug or dream-vision perhaps (think Coleridge) ...
> but what it really is is *science* fiction of a particularly tasty,
> spine-tinglingly 'Twilight Zone'-ish, cyberpunk-preempting mode. Imo.



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