The house in his head is more real to him than a daydream is to someone, but it's still something entirely internal to him, a mental construct. That type of thing has been described by patients diagnosed with MPD although it's impossible to know whether their experience is visceral. Basically it seems to me that there's nothing in the book which is doesn't or couldn't exist now.
I'm very surprised that it won the Tiptree - I think it's even less genre than the Separation, which I think was a bit of a cheat for the Clarke awards but feels at least arguable.
<rant> I think that if we want the writers of real genre literature to be taken seriously then its important that we stop this thing of saying "Well that's really good, and if you twist it and turn it you can almost pretend it counts so we'll grab it". There's good books and great writing both inside and outside genre and both can be celebrated without threatening each-other.</rant>
Thats a bit of a tangent, but you see what I mean, I hope?
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Date: March 24th, 2005 10:00 am (UTC)From:I'm very surprised that it won the Tiptree - I think it's even less genre than the Separation, which I think was a bit of a cheat for the Clarke awards but feels at least arguable.
<rant> I think that if we want the writers of real genre literature to be taken seriously then its important that we stop this thing of saying "Well that's really good, and if you twist it and turn it you can almost pretend it counts so we'll grab it". There's good books and great writing both inside and outside genre and both can be celebrated without threatening each-other.</rant>
Thats a bit of a tangent, but you see what I mean, I hope?