Lsff-book November 2005

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Re: SV: [Lsff-book] Uppdatering dagförfrågan...
by Tommy Persson 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

> From: "Britt-Louise Viklund" <britt-louise.v(a)telia.com> > 15/12 är bättre för mig, men 14:e går också. > Ska vi säga 15/12 då och om någon får förhinder kan vi vara öppna för att schedulera om till till exemple 14:e? /Tommy

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Uppdatering dagförfrågan...
by Tommy Persson 23 Nov '05

23 Nov '05

Till nästa bokbokmötet bestämt att ha boken _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ av Gene Wolfe. Den gavs nyligen ut igen i Fantasy Masterwork-serien så den finns att köpa från till exempel SF-Bokhandeln. Förslag på datum för mötet är: Onsdag 7/12 möjlig men mindre bra (BLV) Måndag 12/12 Onsdag 14/12 bättre (Peter, Fredrike) Torsdag 15/12 bättre (Peter, Fredrike) Så om vi väljer på 14:e eller 15:e är det någon som har någon synpunkt? Åsikter?

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Re: [Lsff-book] Dag?
by petabr＠spray.se 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

För mig och Fredrike passar nog Onsdag 14/12 eller Torsdag 15/12 bäst. /Peter A > Från: Tommy Persson <tpe(a)ida.liu.se> > Till: lsff-book(a)lists.lysator.liu.se > Rubrik: [Lsff-book] Dag? > Datum: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:25:02 +0100 (CET) > Den enda som haft åsikter är BLV så nu är åsiktsfrågan: > > Till nästa bokbokmötet bestämt att ha boken _The Fifth Head of > Cerberus_ av Gene Wolfe. Den gavs nyligen ut igen i Fantasy > Masterwork-serien så den finns att köpa från till exempel > SF-Bokhandeln. > > Förslag på datum för mötet är: > > Onsdag 7/12 möjlig men mindre bra > Måndag 12/12 > Onsdag 14/12 > Torsdag 15/12 > > Åsikter? > > /Tommy > _______________________________________________ > Lsff-book mailing list > Lsff-book(a)lists.lysator.liu.se > <a > href=http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/lsff-book>http://lists.lys > ator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/lsff-book</a>

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Dag?
by Tommy Persson 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Den enda som haft åsikter är BLV så nu är åsiktsfrågan: Till nästa bokbokmötet bestämt att ha boken _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ av Gene Wolfe. Den gavs nyligen ut igen i Fantasy Masterwork-serien så den finns att köpa från till exempel SF-Bokhandeln. Förslag på datum för mötet är: Onsdag 7/12 möjlig men mindre bra Måndag 12/12 Onsdag 14/12 Torsdag 15/12 Åsikter? /Tommy

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Nästa bokbokmöte
by Tommy Persson 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Till nästa bokbokmötet bestämt att ha boken _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ av Gene Wolfe. Den gavs nyligen ut igen i Fantasy Masterwork-serien så den finns att köpa från till exempel SF-Bokhandeln. Förslag på datum för mötet är: Onsdag 7/12 Torsdag 8/12 Måndag 12/12 Onsdag 14/12 Torsdag 15/12 Åsikter? Jag kanske fick med någon dag här som vi igår sa var dåli så meddela mig detta i så fall. /Tommy

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Efter Wolfe
by Tommy Persson 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Vi pratade om att ta en novellsamling också efter Wolfe-boken. Jag föreslår _Black Juice_ av Margo Lanagan. Från http://www.aussiereviews.com/article1543.html Extraordinary short story collection. A good short story is not just a shorter version of the novel. Rather, it is something fluid - which exists both before and after the written version, both for the characters and, importantly, the reader. Whether the story is contemporary or historic, science fiction or fantasy, it should have readers eagerly turning the page, caught up in both action and emotion. Then, when it is finished, it should leave the reader thinking. The ten stories in Black Juice achieve these criteria with aplomb. Each story captivates, even as it has the reader squirming with its ruthlessness, its glimpse into deep and dark human nature. Author Margo Lanagan makes the short story form her own, using it to provide extraordinary perspectives and insights. Each story is unique, but the commonality which binds is the deliberate use of settings and situations which are unfamiliar, yet contain stories which reveal many familiar truths of humankind. Lanagan's stories are sure to be used in literature classrooms, but are also likely to find many fans among adult readers, who will find themselves unable to put the volume down.

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Chiang-boken och Clute
by Tommy Persson 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

John Clutes kolumnd om Ted Chiangs bok som vi dikuterade idag var läsvärd: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue273/excess.html Citat ur den rörande "Hell is the Absence of God": If these tales, even "Story of Your Life," lack something, it may be a full execution of the spiraling growth of intimacy between lives led and life understood. The most savagely affecting story in the book, and therefore in Chiang's work to date, is the one in which fate and understanding are most implacably interwoven. "Hell Is the Absence of God" (2001), which never raises its voice for an instant, may be the most devastating exposure of the putative nature of religion that has ever been penned. Its strategy is the strategy that underlies all of Chiang's stories: that of taking a premise about the nature of the world to be the case, and unpacking it. In the world of "Hell" God does in fact literally exist, as do his angels, whose visitations upon the Earth are like plane crashesthose in the path of an angel landing are very likely to be maimed or killed, though at the same time, arbitrarily, miracles can occur. The protagonist of the tale, Neil Fisk, has been happily married for some time. Although he believes in Godin this story not to believe in God would to be like not believing in waterhe does not love him. Then his wife is killed in an angel visitation, and the witnesses of her death confirm that she is one of the three casualties whose soul has been accepted into heaven. But only those who love God can go to heaven; those who do not love God go to hell, which is a precinct below reality, easily viewable. God cannot perceive those who go to hell. Therefore they remain in hell forever. Through excruciations and epiphanies, gains and losses and turnarounds, and through an utterly uncontrovertible witnessing on his part of the nature of the deity, Neil comes to love God, and therefore himself becomes capable of ascending to heaven, where his beloved wife (God is real) really awaits him. His witnessing of the reality of God has inevitably proven fatalactually to witness heaven, which opens when an angel bursts into the world, is to burn to ashes like Semelebut he loves God, and those who die loving God in this fashion go to heaven. But in Neil's case, inscrutably (God is God, go figure), this does not happen. He goes instead to hell. God, being absent from hell, forever, cannot perceive Neil. But Neil, having witnessed the reality of God, cannot stop perceiving the absence of God, and is in constant agony from the absence of God, forever. Moreover, because to see God is to love God, Neil cannot even stop loving God, forever. "That is the nature of true devotion."

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