Laddies, who the hell is HH?
Mark
At 11:10 PM 3/18/2005, you wrote:
> > Currently I'm more interested in the Glasgow SF nexus --
> > Chris Boyce, Iain M. Banks, and Ian McLeod -- than anything
> > in prose that's coming out of Edinburgh.
>
>I place Banks in the Ettrick Shepherd tradition--like the Hogg of 3 perils
>of Man--he's got the most wonderful story-telling touch. In Feersum Enjun,
>for instance, he can make you care about a mechanical ant, and I mean really
>CARE. But you wish he could transcend it and punch a punchline that
>surprises you. He's disappointed me every time since the Wasp Factory
>(telegraphed 90 pages from the end) to Look To Windward (the most recent one
>that I read) where you get to know that nothing awful CAN happen, because of
>the structure of the story, so why should you care? Banks' trouble is that
>he refuses to grow up. Otherwise he would by now be the most majestic,
>brilliant storyteller on the planet. OK, so I'm exaggerating, but I'm
>disappointed...
>
>And Banks is a Fifer, what does that have to do with Glesga?
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