tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post5786136287964928220..comments2024-03-29T09:09:33.450-04:00Comments on alien romances: Reviews 12 - The Heroic Point of View in Mass Market by Jacqueline LichtenbergRowena Cherryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11839386556697211986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-26991769223525764862015-03-03T12:10:30.555-05:002015-03-03T12:10:30.555-05:00Margaret:
I think you've nailed the reason tha...Margaret:<br />I think you've nailed the reason that so many fans of my own novels are also fans of Jo Walton.<br /><br />Yes, we are taking the major puzzles and sources of angst in modern life and pulling, twisting, looping, and rolling it like taffy -- looking to make the striations into a sensible pattern.Jacqueline Lichtenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01613040740264804278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26974492.post-28871940326901621822015-03-03T12:02:38.367-05:002015-03-03T12:02:38.367-05:00Do you read Jo Walton? Her two most recent novels ...Do you read Jo Walton? Her two most recent novels happen to be relevant to the this post.<br /><br />RE Alternate Universe versions of characters: MY REAL CHILDREN, a heart-wrenching story of the two lives of one woman in two different 20th centuries (neither one exactly like our own). In one world, she lives a fulfilled, mostly happy life, but it's a dystopian world. In the other, much more optimistic world, she personally is trapped in a miserable marriage. <br /><br />RE philosophy: Walton's newest novel, THE JUST CITY, has the premise that the Goddess Athene decides to put Plato's ideal Republic into practice, transporting scholars from many periods of Earth's history to be the masters and teachers, while populating the city with 10-year-old children rescued from slavery, again from many different centuries. Like most utopias, the city develops fatal cracks at the core.<br /><br />Her work is always fascinating, and each book or mini-series is different from the others.Margaret Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08293021955480708191noreply@blogger.com