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From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: "You Know You Want It"
I like this piece of and of it itself. It also remind's me - in a good
way - of Michael Moorcock's Cornelius Quartet. His work was full of
airships and decadence.
Roger
Years ago I greatly enjoyed some Moorcock alternate-world novels in which
there was no WWI and the British Empire was chugging along nicely. Were
those the Cornelius Quartet? I forgot them until this moment. Airships I'm
currently involved w/ are those in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, which
I'm 300 pages into (out of something like 1000). It's a steampunk version
of Gravity's Rainbow, more genial and loosely-textured and finally, I
suspect, darker. Reviews generally bad and/or mystified; but if you like
graphic novels, which I do, I strongly recommend this: it's a graphic novel
without pictures. One element is a gang of intrepid lads (the Chums of
Chance) in an airship (the Inconvenient).
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