Uchronias. (was: Question of plausibility in Small Rain.)

[William Zantzinger]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Spoiler alert?  Well, I read it as a sort of
> alternate
> history, or, perhaps more precisely, alternate
> historical (allohistorical) fantasy (flying carpets
> et
> al.), where Russia colonized North America rather
> than, well, everybody else.  Something like that ...


yeah, well, i read it because it was discarded by a
library. can't remember, maybe i bought it at a
library book sale. the second time round, recently, i
read it on the heels of lolita. there was some talk of
pale fire. I tried to read that one again but that
book is torture. ada is pure pleasure. I recommend
reading ada twice and tossing pale fire in the fire.
ada is  like going into the museum of natural history
when you're  nine or ten and standing under the
dinosaur bones.  you can open ada to any chapter and
read it just to cheer yourself up or get your napping
synapses snapping. 


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