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Lush Seperation

Graham alerts me to the fact there is another, better report of that panel. I need to read through it to make sure he is still wrong but two things first:

1) Each panelist has submitted a list of the best 50 or 100 works of fiction of all-time that are in some important way non-mimetic or fantastic, but would not ordinarily be regarded as sf, fantasy, or horror. We've compiled the lists and provided you all with a handout

Well, we've seen Graham's list but where is my handout?

2) Drummond says he’s going to play a Jethro Tull song during the panel! He says he doesn’t like the implication that slipstream has to be a downer.

Christ.

Comments
Re: Okay:

Not an entirely fair comparison, I think, given that Maguire emphasizes the fairy-tale-ness of the stories he riffs off, whereas for Ryman Oz was just a jumping-off point. That said, it's precisely because he can't stop stressing their fairy-tale antecedents that Maguire's novels fail to come together, so I guess the comparison is valid in that, although Maguire and Ryman are doing different things, Maguire is doing the wrong one, or at least the wrong one for him.