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[John Bailey]

Just finished Mieville's novella The Last Days of New Paris and it's
clearly influenced by GR. It's set in an alternate reality WWII Paris where
Nazis battle surrealist artworks made manifest by a psychic explosion. It's
a fun caper attempting to pay tribute to the more revolutionary energies of
various Surrealist movements (with quite a lot of occultism to boot) and
I'd say Pynchon's mix of politics, history and alternative culture and art
made him worthy of a few obvious nods here.

On 22 Nov 2017 6:46 AM, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know anything but this line about the book....but an homage that
> starts
> with "between" twice, second time about his imaginiings is a nice After GR
> Literary Effect mho.
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 2:36 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sure, homage.  You can't expect to get away with plagiarism of all those
>> GR tropes.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hommage rather than plagiarism, surely?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:43 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> About as direct a reference as possible.  Almost plagiarism.
>>>>
>>>> David Morris
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 12:11 PM Mike <beider19 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> An interesting start to a paragraph in the middle of China Mieville's *the
>>>>> last days of new paris*:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Between the trajectories of rocket falls, rainbow-shapes and gravity,
>>>>> between his imaginings of the screamings across the sky..."
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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