[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What DVD's are you watching?

[maidmarian_thepoet]

Just finished Caprica.
The original "Life on Mars" and "Defiance" are next.

--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Uncle Ruckus"  wrote:
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> Watchmen Director's Cut
> Straight From the Projects
> How We Did It
> Ken Burns' The Civil War
>

[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: Role call: What are you reading?

[maidmarian_thepoet]

China Mieville's "The City and The City"

Interesting, so far.  It took me a while to get back the names, but I am 
enjoying it.

--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Kelwyn"  wrote:
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> I am reading "Queen City Jazz" by Kathleen Ann Goonan and thoroughly enjoying 
> her post apocalypse novel.  It is eerily precognitive about the incipient 
> dangers of giving too much of our lives over to "smart" tech.
> 
> ~rave!
> 
> http://twitter.com/ravenadal
> http://theworldebon.blogspot.com
>

[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: What was the last SF novel you read that made you go "WOW!"?

[maidmarian_thepoet]

A belated answer:

"Air" by Geoff Ryman 
This is the 3rd book of his that I've loved.  There were so many literary 
problems that he was able to overcome in this short novel...including the lost 
of viewpoint character for several chapters.

--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal"  wrote:
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> What was the last SF novel you read that made you go "WOW!"  And, by that, I 
> mean the last novel that made your head spin around.  For me it was William 
> Gibson's "Neuromancer" and that was published in 1984, twenty-five years ago! 
>  
> 
> By-the-by, I am only interested in novel novels - do not summit graphic 
> novels.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~rave!
>

[SciFiNoir Lit] December interviews

[maidmarian_thepoet]

December was quite a month--when I could find an interview with Nnedi 
Okorafor in Locus and an interview with Nalo Hopkinson in The New York 
Review of Science Fiction.

Bravo!

[SciFiNoir Lit] Re: a literary/film question

[maidmarian_thepoet]

Well, thanks for giving me a "wow" moment this morning.  
You make me want to go back and read the books.  And it helps me to
understand why Ryman felt free to experiment even further with "Was".

--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Many of the events and characters of the book resemble the actual
> political personalities, events and ideas of the 1890s.[1] The 1902
> stage adaptation mentioned, by name, President Theodore Roosevelt, oil
> magnate John D. Rockefeller, and other political celebrities.[1] (No
> real people are mentioned by name in the book.) Even the title has
> been interpreted as alluding to a political reality: oz. is an
> abbreviation for ounce, a unit familiar to those who fought for a 16
> to 1 ounce ratio of silver to gold in the name of bimetallism, though
> Baum stated he got the name from a file cabinet labeled A-N and O-Z.
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[SciFiNoir Lit] a literary/film question

[maidmarian_thepoet]

So, I am reading a review of "The Tin Man" in my local paper.  The
article is actually from the NY Times, so I guess that you can find it
there.  And I run up against the following: 

"Baum said that he sought simply to produce a modern fairy tale, but
his symbolism was hardly subtle. The novel came to be understood as an
allegory for debates about turn-of-the-century monetary policy
stemming from outrage over the subjugation of agricultural interests
to the imperialism of bankers on the East Coast. (In the book, unlike
in the 1939 film, Dorothy's shoes are made of silver, not rubies. The
notion of silver shoes ambling on a yellow brick road is thought to
stand for Baum's advocacy of bimetallism, a shift from the gold
standard that would have given farmers access to cheaper money.)"

Now, I've come to love literary criticism.  Reading Torah commentaries
uses the same muscles.  As I exercise one, I exercise the other.  But
HUH?  "The Wizard of Oz" was about monetary policy?  

Do we have some degreed folks here who can explain that one to me?  I
am  very confused.  And this from a person who loves "Was"--Ryman's
rewrite of the OZ story.  

Re: [SciFiNoir Lit] What are you reading?

[maidmarian_thepoet]

It's cool to see my original question has been kept going.

As for myself:
I took "the Salt Eaters" with me on my trip and enjoyed it.
Also Lawrence Kushner's "Kabbalah: A Love Story"
I finishsed "Cripple Creek" by James Sallis and I bought Nalo's latest 
while I was in Chicago and started on that.

Oh, and for fun, I found this book in the library "Comic Book Cover 
Girls".

--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Miykie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Anthony Burgess--The Wanting Seed and Nalo Hopkinson--The Salt Eaters
> 
>