NP - Little Big

[Ghetta Life]

A review I just read suggests that *Aegypt* contains nods to COL49:

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020325/aegypt.shtml

The tag line associated with Crowley's novel is "There is another history of 
the world"; to me that line initially suggested shadowy conspiracies a la 
Illuminatus! or The Crying of Lot 49 (the latter being an intentional 
resonance, no doubt, given that two characters in Aegypt have the last name 
Mucho (as in Mucho Maas) and the protagonist's name echoes "Pierce 
Inverarity" from Crying), but Aegypt's mysteries are deeper and less 
sinister than those of the great conspiracy novels. Pierce's secret history 
"is as different from History yet as symmetrical to it as dream is to 
waking." (pt. 1 ch. 5) There are suggestions that this other history was 
once the real history of the world, but that the world has somehow changed, 
leaving this other history to us only in legend and lore.


>From: mikebailey at speakeasy.net
>
>Little, Big is pretty good writing, ie the quality of the prose transcends 
>the genre
>
>however, a work of utter perfection is Crowley's Aegypt (it's the 1st 
>volume in a tetralogy, but it stands alone and - I think - is far better 
>than vol 2 or 3 -- 4 isn't available yet)
>
>Aegypt engenders reading-bliss on the level of the writer this list 
>celebrates

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