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by Fussbett 05/08/2009, 3:33pm PDT |
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Zseni's fugue aside, if the best we can come up with is a pointless parallel world branching off from a subway car, and perhaps suggest that the party is Gehenna, the point at which three characters begin their lifetime of punishment... well then maybe this story is just well written but mediocre after all. At a certain point you have to say the the story is either too shallow or too opaque to have more meaning. I still might write an email to Harry Harrison, editor of Best SF 71 and ask him what the eff. (I can't find any Malzberg contact info)
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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
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