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| From | D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: "19 Best Science Fiction Horror Books" |
| Date | 2018-05-04 05:44 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <20180503f@crcomp.net> (permalink) |
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Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/18 15:08, D B Davis wrote:
> snip
>>
>> _Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said_ (PKD) appears on the list. It was
>> recently read by me. It was my fondest hope for it to be The One, the
>> most dystopic of them all, according to me.
>
> Was the real world as described in "A Scanner Darkly" a contender?
>
>> Alas, it turns out that _Cloud Atlas_ (Mitchell) is actually the
>> worst of them all. It's meta-dystopic with a crapsack supernatural. Even
>> after you die its dystopic claws don't let loose. It makes Alice Sheldon
>> look positively Pollyannish in comparison.
>
> David Mitchell is one of my all time favourites. I have read all his
> novels and most are five stars. The "crapsack supernatural" continues.
> It doesn't impose or dominate but has still upset some of his literary
> critics. It was hardly mentioned at all in "The Thousand Autumns...."
> and arrived late in "The Bone Clocks" about which I read the criticism.
> "Slade House" is all horror in "crapsack supernatural" but is a much
> shorter book. (Although the novels all stand alone, I think they would
> be better appreciated if read in publication order.)
_A Scanner Darkly_ (PKD) isn't mentioned in the OP's linked list of 96
Dystopian Science Fiction Books. Perhaps my followup confuses you? Allow
me to explain. Sometimes "bad" means "good:"
In slang usage, the adjective "bad" means "good," as we
mentioned in a post we wrote some time ago about the
influence of African-American slang on English.
The surprising thing about this use of "bad"-apart from
the reversed meaning-is that it's not recent. It dates
back to the 19th century, as we'll explain later. ...
https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/12/bad.html
So "bad" means "good" and "worst" means "best" in my followup.
And "crapsack" is a superlative. :0)
✍
Thank you,
--
Don
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