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what is prog rock?
* genre-bending
* strongly influenced by classical
* obsessed with mythical, science fictional, and fantastic topics
* playing w form
* high technical virtuousity
I think that there's no perfect parallel, but Gene Wolf, @MichaelSwanwick , @nealstephenson
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3/ Neal Stephenson is obviously doing literary equivalent of a 22 minute track length And "There's an alternate reality connected to our own via a directed acyclic graph of concepts, and their churches are our grad schools, and quantum uncertainty lets monks transmute rock" >>
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4/ certainly challenges Rush's "ok, there are two parts of the human brain, logic and emotion, but they have to work together if they want to fly a starship to a distant black hole" for esoteric weirdness. ...but NS falls down a bit on technical virtuousity.
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5/ I mean, NS CAN absolutely do technical virtuousity. He did all the time back in Snowcrash days. But now he doesn't bother. "Not bothering because ok is good enough" is very un-Prog rock.
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6/ Gene Wolfe does genre bending all the time. And he does technical virtuousity. And he's inspired by the classics (just look at his language in Claw of the Concilliator, etc !). And Swanwick is basically the popular, easier to read Gene Wolfe.
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7/ Excellent point! Yes, I'm totally familiar that MM was involved in Hawkwind.https://twitter.com/epobirs/status/1175874422420279311 …
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8/ > And Swanwick is basically the popular, easier to read Gene Wolfe. and to be clear, that's not a dis on Swanwick. I prefer Swanwick to Wolfe, the same way I prefer Rush to, say, I don't know, Camel, or Porcupine Tree, or whatever
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9/ Worthy answer! TCB is actually the only non genre author I bother to read these days. Hmm...will think on this. (Btw, a fun easy intro to TCB is Drop City Blues. Highly recommended.)https://twitter.com/spongeworthy2/status/1175879957236584449 …
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Consider that Michael Moorcock has been a presence in both of those fields.
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Great low key porn name.
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