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He must roll them around in his mouth (as I do) to get the taste…. Niven says, “Myers must be in love with words (as I am). Golias makes the tale surge with energy from the beginning … has experiences terrifying or heart-wrenching…. Good comedy recognizes this truth and draws strength from it…. Life is often stark and, in some sense, ultimately tragic. To introduce the 1979 printing (and thereafter) Anderson says, “it’s incomparable fun…. We begin to touch on speculative fiction, which tells of things an audience cannot have known because they have never happened. The fame of Scott and Robertson came from an audience that did not know, reached by artists so good their work appealed intrinsically. The Ballad of Harlaw that Jeannie Robertson (1908-1975) sang, about a battle in 1411, was printed in a 1549 collection Sir Walter Scott published another about it in 1806. To sing of the known is a time-honored art: The Iliad and The Odyssey three millennia ago, the Vedas earlier. Say “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” and you bring without naming Helen of Troy from Greek mythology three millennia ago, and quote without citing Marlowe’s Faust (Act V, sc. Stories a poet and audience have in common are a great resource.
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Meville, Moby-Dick, 1851) a century later in the Atlantic, and indeed his saying blandly in the first place he was on the Naglfar, which being the ship made of the nails of dead men Loki will navigate when all things are destroyed at Ragnarok seems at best strange for the mundane vessel equipped with a radio our protagonist describes until he gives us its name twice in the fifth paragraph and we never hear it more. He, a 35-year-old Chicagoan - Dante’s age when he dreamed The Divine Comedy (1321) - shipwrecked and afloat nine days out of Baltimore, meets in the water a man calling himself Widsith Amergin Demodocus Boyan Taliesin Golias none of which Shandon recognizes, watches Moby Dick smash the Pequod which he also does not recognize, and goes through three hundred pages of adventure in the Commonwealth of Literature, footing, fighting, feasting, finding thirtyscore characters of song and story none of whom he recognizes.Įventually we wonder at his having seen a Pacific Ocean whale (H. Let’s suppose you know a white streak in the hair of our protagonist Clarence Shandon makes him Silverlock. In 1979, while Jim Baen was at Ace, his arm was twisted by Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle, and Ace reprinted in 1982, again then a Buccaneer hardback (1992) Ace again (1996) then the NESFA (New England S-F Ass’n) Press hardback, with Bruce Pelz’ music for some of the songs, and the invaluable Companion by Anne Braude and Fred Lerner (2004) and not to be slack, an Ace trade paperback (2005) followed by a Kindle version (2008). By John Hertz (reprinted from Vanamonde 1213): After John Myers’ Silverlock was published in 1949 it languished two decades until Terry Carr at Ace published a paperback (1969).