[bksvol-discuss] Re: New Submission - Finally
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:50:15 -0700
Jeepers! That sounds like a lot of dedicated work! I can't validate it, too
many other prior obligations, but I'll definitely pick it up when it gets
into the collection.
Thanks for conscientiously doing this difficult job.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 6:12 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] New Submission - Finally
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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