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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Semiotic Stochastic

      1/ ooooh this is a fascinating question!https://twitter.com/mitdasein/status/1175567299840839680 …

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      Semiotic Stochastic @mitdasein
      What/who is the literary equivalent of prog rock?
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

      2/ 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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

      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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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

      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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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted epobirs

          7/ Excellent point! Yes, I'm totally familiar that MM was involved in Hawkwind.https://twitter.com/epobirs/status/1175874422420279311 …

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          Consider that Michael Moorcock has been a presence in both of those fields.
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

          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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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 22 Sep 2019

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Inimitable Spongeworthy, a Minor Deity

          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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