The Mind ([info]juuro) wrote,
2006-04-07 19:18:00

Legitur

29/2006: Charles Stross, Accelerando

I still feel it works better as separate, largely stand-alone short stories, than as the novel it has been recast as.

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[info]thette

April 7 2006, 17:13:40 UTC 6 years ago

I felt the stand-alones were too lacking in context, and I really liked the dynasty feel of the novel.

[info]juuro

April 7 2006, 19:00:18 UTC 6 years ago

The short story provenance was unfortunately evident in the provisioning of the context. Some features of the development of the universe and even the story were repeated many times, on each point where it was necessary to refer to an earlier instalment.

[info]thette

April 7 2006, 19:02:01 UTC 6 years ago

True.

I've read Robert Jordan; I think I've got an immunity against it.

[info]toolmaker

April 8 2006, 18:01:49 UTC 6 years ago

I found the stories wonder-ful and playful, but the novel is richer in emotion. It could be that my memory is faulty, but I do not remember the short stories being as humanistic as the novel.

He seems more gentle in the novels I've read, Singularity Sky, Accelerando. I thought Sky weaker than his short stories, yet worthwhile because of the gentleness.

I wonder how much the cyclic nature of the novel is due to being stitched together from stories, and how much is due from some great theme of the life cycles of intelligent life? Surely some of it was purposeful?

[info]juuro

April 9 2006, 05:59:34 UTC 6 years ago

The intentionality of the structure did occur to me, too. It still tastes a bit pasted-on, I'm afraid.

You do have a point on the emotioning. In the novel Stross does seem to care a bit more about his creations; in the short stories he is bit more distant.
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