Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Link: Tenser, said the Tensor

Merci beaucoup to Salon Blogs neighbour Subdued Citizen of Longtime SF Fan File for linking to this fascinating linguistic analysis of Jack Vance's The Languages of Pao. One could find it almost frightening how much detail and sheer brainpower went into reviewing a book like that, much less to say writing the book itself. As time goes on I find myself more and more terrified of science fiction and the exhausting level of specialized knowledge and research it appears to require. (And this is a book written in 1958!) Another excellent reason to stick to my normal haunts in genre fantasy, cowering in the shadow of Tolkien.

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