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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
The Expository Writing courses sound, bizarrely enough, rather fun. Here are some of the course titles: Art of Time; The Ethics of Rebellion; Fate, Fortune and Free Will; Ghost Stories; Gothic Fiction; Knowledge and Deception; Mapping the Mind. Of course, I'm scheduled to take Exposistory Writing in the spring (thank goodness), and the course choices will be different, but don't you think this listing sounds fascinating?
I may or may not have told you that my proctor (who comes from England and has a great sarcastic streak) lent me the first book of Otherland, by Tad Williams (one of my favorite SF/F authors). It's the whole "virtual vs. real worlds colliding" theme again, but I don't think anyone has managed to carry it out so imaginatively as Tad Williams. He's never written a short book (all of them range around 700 pages), but in fact the length is what enables him to develop such compelling stories. He creates myriads of characters and remembers all of them--each seemingly insignificant name plays some part. It is a well-crafted tapestry, not on Tolkien's scale of course, but it's wonderful to see the story coming together from all these different angles. There are four parts to the series (all huge books), so that's my SF/F dose for the semester, I guess, if Pandemonium Books doesn't lure me back again.
Anyway, it's absolutely fnxoopy of the proctor to lend the book, and I went to sleep late last night as a result.
Also downloaded Count Cain, Penguin Brothers, Worldend Fairytale and more of HanaKimi. Oh, and I'm downloading Dice as well. But the connection is kind of slow and I have to go to the President's Barbecue soon. >_<
...Tari
The Expository Writing courses sound, bizarrely enough, rather fun. Here are some of the course titles: Art of Time; The Ethics of Rebellion; Fate, Fortune and Free Will; Ghost Stories; Gothic Fiction; Knowledge and Deception; Mapping the Mind. Of course, I'm scheduled to take Exposistory Writing in the spring (thank goodness), and the course choices will be different, but don't you think this listing sounds fascinating?
I may or may not have told you that my proctor (who comes from England and has a great sarcastic streak) lent me the first book of Otherland, by Tad Williams (one of my favorite SF/F authors). It's the whole "virtual vs. real worlds colliding" theme again, but I don't think anyone has managed to carry it out so imaginatively as Tad Williams. He's never written a short book (all of them range around 700 pages), but in fact the length is what enables him to develop such compelling stories. He creates myriads of characters and remembers all of them--each seemingly insignificant name plays some part. It is a well-crafted tapestry, not on Tolkien's scale of course, but it's wonderful to see the story coming together from all these different angles. There are four parts to the series (all huge books), so that's my SF/F dose for the semester, I guess, if Pandemonium Books doesn't lure me back again.
Anyway, it's absolutely fnxoopy of the proctor to lend the book, and I went to sleep late last night as a result.
Also downloaded Count Cain, Penguin Brothers, Worldend Fairytale and more of HanaKimi. Oh, and I'm downloading Dice as well. But the connection is kind of slow and I have to go to the President's Barbecue soon. >_<
...Tari
