Today I finally read Michael Swanwick's time-travel dinosaur orgy novel, Bones of the Earth. And fine, fine stuff it is, infused with an iridescent love of learning, science, and inquiry. And dinosaurs. I shall digest it now...
While I do so, if you haven't already (if you aren't in the science-fictional 'loop' I dimly perceived this summer), you can read John Clute's review, written in his unique, inimitable, tall, Canadian style.
Posted by aloysius at November 29, 2003 09:28 PM | TrackBack |What is this "loop" of which you speak? And what is a "tall" style of writing?
Posted by: Graham on December 1, 2003 01:06 PMA loop is a path in a topological space whose initial and terminal points coincide, of course.
It is also a bunch of people you know, who read John Clute's reviews regularly, or know John Clute personally, or are John Clute themselves. Though there is more to their loopedness than just John Clute. There is also Readercon. And things of that nature.
And a tall style, o you who feign unknowing, curves parabolically out from its source in the murky headwaters of the Industrial Revolution through fecund forests of phraseology, accompanied by an enthusiastic waving of the hands, as if to coax a bird into flight, building momentum steadily until a cardinal collision with insight.
Posted by: aloysius on December 1, 2003 09:01 PMSilly me....
Posted by: Graham on December 1, 2003 10:29 PM