[bksvol-discuss] New Submission - Finally
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:12:55 -0400
Hello everyone,
I just submitted Alfred Bester's Virtual Unrealities a collection of 17 short
stories which will challenge any reader, even those who are used to modern
science fiction. Bester's characters speak more languages than most of us know
or even recognize but he knows that, I assume, as we don't need to know most of
what they are saying - only that they are speaking in many languages and,
mostly, in cliché phrases. Often it is enough to know that someone is speaking
to 3 different people in 3 different languages to know that the female has
show her brilliance as a hostess. The story "The Pi Man" may drive some
reader's crazy but if you have patience the meaning comes clear and you may be
as fascinated as I was 50 years ago and still am. But also frustrated.
I included "scanner's notes" at the beginning of the book [on a blank page] as
an introduction to explain the sentences which might end up being a bunch of
meaningless words on the left margin or which might be as the are in the book -
in interesting shapes so that the shape of the sentence is what it means. One
character had lunch in Paris and the sentence that tells us that is in the
shape of the Eiffel tower. Because of that, the reader may not read it in a
way that makes sense so throughout the book I had notes describing what was not
visible and putting the sentences so that they could imagine the shape and
understand the image Bester has created.
I hope when it is available many of you will read it and if you like it please
let me know. And if you did not like my notes please tell me that also.
Amy
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agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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