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This thread is for comments about Magic Makeup, by Ray Vukcevich.
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Christopher Barzak
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This story is WONDERFUL!!! I loved it! Thank you thank you thank you. I couldn't keep from laughing and smiling. Reading Ray's stories are like being a little kid again and watching a magician pull a rabbit from his hat for the first time.
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Tribeless
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I love Vukcevich, but missed this one. What week was Magic Makeup published?
The last week I have showing when posting this is 5 April, 2004.
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Karen Meisner
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It's published as of today, April 12. Maybe you're looking at a cached webpage? You can follow the link in the first post of this thread to go straight to the story.
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Tribeless
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Classic Vukcevich :) Very good. His brain just seems to be wired differently to the rest of us.
I find him a particularly interesting author as I don't particularly agree with his subjectivist (very de-constructed post modern) philosophical point of view, however, whenever he has a story in a magazine I will always read him first as he very nearly ever fails to surprise and delight.
I do sometimes wonder we he can take this 'type' of writing to?
[By the way, Strange Horizons is going from strength to strength lately (especially good to see writers of this calibre submitting].
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Tribeless
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Sorry, the above post should have read:
'I do sometimes wonder where he can take this 'type' of writing to?'
[For some reason I proof read after posting, not before]
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Simon Owens
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This was a neat story. I didn't completely understand everything that happened in the end. I got the general gist of it: in switching bodies they gained insight into each other's secrets, but because of the odd back-and-forth between the two characters it was hard to figure out who did what. Since Jed posted those links to Ray's stories in the rumor mill, I've become a big fan of his fiction.
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Jed Hartman
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Here's a copy of that list of links to Ray's stories that are available for free online:
"The Wages of Syntax" (which is on this year's final Nebula ballot) in SCI FICTION.
"Whisper," "No Comet," and "Mom's Little Friends" on the Small Beer Press page about Meet Me in the Moon Room.
"Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Boy" here in Strange Horizons.
"Love Leans in from the Left" and "Lost at Sea with Captain Alabama and Mr. Cockatoo" in Lost Pages.
"You Must Remember This" in Metastatic Whatnot.
"In the Flesh" in The Infinite Matrix.
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Jed Hartman
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Quote:
By the way, Strange Horizons is going from strength to strength lately
Thanks for the compliment!
As for where Ray can take this type of writing, I don't know, but I'm looking forward to finding out.
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