The Silence of the Tomes
Girl in Landscape is full of talk, but it is perhaps, at the same time, the most silent book I can easily remember ever reading.
-- John Clute, 1998
Most alternate histories – Arabian Wine is, barely, one of these – sing the wrath of change. They are all about getting somewhere by other means. Arabian Wine does not so utter. Its lips are sealed. It is the most silent work of sf I think I may have ever read.
-- Ibid., 2005
posted by Gregory Feeley at 5:38 AM
4 Comments:
Well, it’s a complement given the accusations Clute typically makes against other writers of blather, chatter, noise, babel, yak, gabfest, etc. There’s also his curious resorting to metaphors about pheromones and the way he makes “Body English” sound like something that can be cured with a good deodorant (maybe cause for a good critical essay on the topic of “my 15 minutes in an enclosed space with John Clute and the importance of discrete mouth-breathing”).
Greg! Where was the review?
Shh! Be vewy vewy quiet; I'm writing SF.
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