Post by rorschalk on Jul 15, 2023 18:07:44 GMT
Dear Mr. VC,
Rockefeller put it in his pipe and, as there was some smoke detected, has bumped it up into the terminal in quest of fire.
His disquisition follows:
Finally got around to Leonard's Novorossiya cap. The opening put me off a little, though not enough to bail. So many colors, prose bordering on turgidity. But then openings, usually the most overworked part of any story, often tend to suffer. I think maybe we read and reread, edit and re-edit (vise and revise?) them so many times in the course of warming up that we get tired of what was once fine and replace it with overblown perfection. The other quibble I have is that the piece is a fairly transparent political polemic, or maybe it's just that I don't necessarily agree with it all. The whole evil ruskie thing, the notion that immigrants are destroying us (US), when (imo) we've meddled way more in others politics and lives than anyone has in ours. But, like this lapel button my ex once gave me said, "You're welcome to your wrong opinion."
The cap is well written, intelligent, engaging and imaginative. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for good cyberpunk. Got a Gibson vibe from it. Loved the little blurbs and ads inserted throughout. Wasn't nuts about the ending. But, that's life. There are happily endeds, but no happy endings. This deserves further scrutiny at our loftier levels. Hey Bull! Hey Fish! Incoming...
Rockefeller put it in his pipe and, as there was some smoke detected, has bumped it up into the terminal in quest of fire.
His disquisition follows:
Finally got around to Leonard's Novorossiya cap. The opening put me off a little, though not enough to bail. So many colors, prose bordering on turgidity. But then openings, usually the most overworked part of any story, often tend to suffer. I think maybe we read and reread, edit and re-edit (vise and revise?) them so many times in the course of warming up that we get tired of what was once fine and replace it with overblown perfection. The other quibble I have is that the piece is a fairly transparent political polemic, or maybe it's just that I don't necessarily agree with it all. The whole evil ruskie thing, the notion that immigrants are destroying us (US), when (imo) we've meddled way more in others politics and lives than anyone has in ours. But, like this lapel button my ex once gave me said, "You're welcome to your wrong opinion."
The cap is well written, intelligent, engaging and imaginative. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for good cyberpunk. Got a Gibson vibe from it. Loved the little blurbs and ads inserted throughout. Wasn't nuts about the ending. But, that's life. There are happily endeds, but no happy endings. This deserves further scrutiny at our loftier levels. Hey Bull! Hey Fish! Incoming...
