Do we really want to reread CHAPTERs SIX-NINE about Flandry and Djana gradually realizing that the conscious computer on Wayland is playing chess with robots shaped like life-sized knights, bishops etc? Or would we instead prefer to skip ahead to CHAPTER TEN where the two human beings leave Wayland and are captured by Merseians? I will dip into CHAPTER SIX although I do not expect to find much new in it to post about.
Today we attended the Lancaster Green Party Christmas Fair which I have mentioned before and which fills the Friends' Meeting House. I recognized some books on the book stall, having donated them. Other events have happened around town including a lot of rain but now we are back home for the evening.
Other reading emphasizes the extent to which superheroes are grounded in sf. In a history of Marvel Comics: it had been established that a species called the Kree controlled an interstellar empire before it was decided that the Kree would dispatch to Earth a spy called Mar-Vell, Captain Marvel.
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Cross-fertilizaton of genres!
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: I don't mind rereading every chapter of A CIRCUS OF HELLS whenever I read the book.
Mr. Stirling: To say nothing of how the Wayland AI was using complex games to help save its sanity. I think too rigid conditions imposed by his pub. on how long the book could be kept PA from telling us more about that AI. Pity!
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
I hope a ms. exists of A CIRCUS OF HELLS in which Anderson discourses at greater length about the Wayland AI. That would correct the chief real flaw I find in CIRCUS.
Ad astra! Sean
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