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Reged: Feb 16 2004
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This thread is for comments about Archipelago, by Anil Menon
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ccfinlay
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Hey, SH folks,
It looks like there's a missing close italics tag in the paragraph beginning "She raised her head to look at him." Everything in the rest of the story after the foreign word shows up on my browser in italics, at any rate, which makes my eyes bug out.
If I'm mistaken in some way, please mock me and move on.
Thanks,
Charlie
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Jed Hartman
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Reged: Oct 15 2003
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Argh! Very sorry about that; entirely my fault. I mis-tagged something late last night when making a correction, and didn't see the problem it caused.
Thanks very much for letting us know, and apologies to author and readers for letting that slip through.
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Geraint D\'Arcy
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There was a moment early on when I thought that the story was going to be clumsy. I was thankfully mistaken. The narrative has a haunting and eerie beauty; the empathy with the Tommy/ Thomas character is compelling, the tech fascinating, characters solid. The Literary references work well as part of its vision. I enjoyed this piece very much.
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meghan mccarron
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anil is honestly one of my favorite writers. no one's got a voice like him, and few marry literary and scientific sources with such emotion and style. he better keep it up. or i'll punch him. not, like, in the face. but i'll definitely give him a good hard jab in the arm.
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Alice Kim
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I read this story back when it was drippy with italics and I STILL enjoyed the hell out of it. Anil's prose is so beautiful and his ideas are obscenely good. Almost worth checking out Frontiers of Evolutionary Computation, eh?
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C. A. Gardner
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What a beautiful, haunting story. Anil has an amazing facility with creating not just future technologies, but the social structures and interactions, and even jargon and slang, that would result from them. The use of the literary and philosophic references not only provide thematic resonance, but also offer a shorthand for the modern reader to comprehend the nature of the technology and the level of social change. Wonderful!
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Anonymous
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I really enjoy Anil's use of language. His work is sprinkled with little gems--just great little phrases and ideas. This is another Clarion story that I'm glad to see published.
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Bob Angell
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Yes, very haunting. I enjoyed it, obsessed about it for far too long. Husserl would be proud! This is an interesting world he's built, but I wonder about the belching, cereal eating car.
Bravo!
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