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Caltrops Book Club: Gehenna by Barry Malzberg by Fussbett 05/05/2009, 10:58am PDT I've been reading (through my ears) a lot of sci-fi again, and I keep thinking back to this tiny short story I read a couple years ago that sticks with me despite (or because of?) my inability to understand what the fuck happened in it. Caltrops! Let's figure this one out together. And because it's Caltrops and not your mom and dad's forum, I'll just post scans of the whole story and they can stay here until ICJ gets a C&D letter. Well? What the fuck!

Caltrops Book Club: Gehenna by Barry Malzberg by Fussbett 05/05/2009, 10:58am PDT     Gehenna is another word for purgatory by up with pod people 05/05/2009, 12:48pm PDT     Here's an idea (for Zseni to poop on). Only the unflattering parts are true. NT by Last 05/05/2009, 1:02pm PDT     I think there's some clue to the allegory in the sequence of stops, although I by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/05/2009, 1:39pm PDT         Whoa! A New York perspective! This could be big. by Fussbett 05/05/2009, 2:06pm PDT     Maybe it's my assburgers but I don't see a problem here. by Zsenitan 05/05/2009, 2:40pm PDT         I wondered how long it would take until someone brought up Montesquieu... by Fussbett 05/05/2009, 11:12pm PDT             Hmmm who's right me or not me hmmmm by Zsenitan 05/06/2009, 4:27am PDT                 Re: Hmmm who's right me or not me hmmmm by Fussbett 05/06/2009, 11:11pm PDT                     Re: Hmmm who's right me or not me hmmmm by Zsenitan 05/07/2009, 1:00am PDT                     Here's a terrible "what if" by The Happiness Engine 05/07/2009, 6:57pm PDT                         Yeah, that fits the SF angle Fussbett may have been looking for. by Last 05/07/2009, 8:17pm PDT                         I think I feel something similar -- variation: by up with pod people 05/07/2009, 9:37pm PDT     Re: Caltrops Book Club: Gehenna by Barry Malzberg by Mysterious Stranger 05/06/2009, 5:15am PDT         Jesus hiding in plain sight! FSBT: better or worse than Rashomon? NT by Zsenitan 05/06/2009, 5:57am PDT             That would've been better than poor man's Rashomon if true and we missed it NT by Fussbett 05/06/2009, 9:26pm PDT         Sorry, this is wrong. by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/06/2009, 8:22am PDT     Re: Caltrops Book Club: Gehenna by Barry Malzberg by N 05/08/2009, 3:22am PDT         Is Fussbett's story just a primitive version of the movie Sliding Doors? NT by Gwynyth Paltryw 05/08/2009, 3:44am PDT     I think I'm ready to bring this first book club meeting to a close. by Fussbett 05/08/2009, 3:33pm PDT         if so, I think sadly then it can't be blown off as mediocre NT by up with pod people 05/08/2009, 3:49pm PDT         Multiple perspectives: an easy way to inflate a story? by FABIO 05/09/2009, 2:04am PDT             But this wasn't multiple perspectives, it was multiple events. by Fussbett 05/09/2009, 2:51am PDT                 Purgatory (video game reference for video game forum) by FABIO 05/09/2009, 4:47am PDT                     Re: Purgatory (video game reference for video game forum) by Fussbett 05/09/2009, 1:31pm PDT                         Ohhh, here we go! by Quétinbec 05/09/2009, 7:29pm PDT                             Someone get the camcorder! "Nooooooo!!!" NT by Fussbett 05/09/2009, 7:47pm PDT                             The happy what? NT by FABIO 05/10/2009, 1:56am PDT                                 I guess the war ended before it started. PLUS: shithead actor is a shithead. by Fussbett 05/11/2009, 1:05am PDT                                     Fabio linked Love Thief without watching it,so I accidently thought he was great NT by Quétinbec 05/11/2009, 4:58pm PDT                                     Goddamn internet by Fussbett 05/11/2009, 5:19pm PDT