tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457271362502173174.post6537064439090844771..comments2023-03-27T01:08:48.164-07:00Comments on Diverse Fictions: A post/human digressionHelen younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03089106804807201826noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457271362502173174.post-34922943088390151912012-12-04T17:59:25.852-08:002012-12-04T17:59:25.852-08:00Thanks Folgha. As you might have guessed from my p...Thanks Folgha. As you might have guessed from my posts I've been busy in the last little while with conference etc (I;m actually between sessoin at one now). I haven't read all Hobb's work, but I was thinking about her dragons in the Rain Wilds Chronicles as something like AI technology with their copied/inherited memories.<br />I haven't read Brevik's book but will have a look for it if I end up turning the conference paper into an article. There's a lot around about Caliban and postcolonialism.<br />It's true that humans can reach some pretty spectacular depths of unpleasantness. I think what I was trying to suggest is that vmpires etc aren't universally evil predator types. They've become more human in terms of motivations, actions, and agency.Helen younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03089106804807201826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457271362502173174.post-85859993783937329512012-11-28T15:47:07.500-08:002012-11-28T15:47:07.500-08:00I have three remarks on this, if you will kindly i...I have three remarks on this, if you will kindly indulge me:<br /><br />1) How Hobb treats Icefyre--both dragons, really--in <i>Fool's Fate</i> also offers an interesting emotional picture. Then again, it is filtered through Fitz (a filter to which I am somewhat partial), so that might color matters.<br /><br />2) Have you looked at Frank W. Brevik's book The Tempest <i>and New World-Utopian Politics</i>? From what I recall of chatting with the man some years back (his dissertation and mine were directed by the same person, and we lived right around the corner from one another), he at least motions towards some of what you discuss about Caliban. It might be worth considering.<br /><br />3) I do not know that I would equate "closer to humanity" and "less threatening" as you do. People are capable of decided unpleasantness--sometimes in the name of love, as Shakespeare shows. Hobb, too, as I think on it.Folghahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11216211342742260055noreply@blogger.com