Astronautilia

We can see plenty of fantasy in works of science fiction in the conventional _forms_ of science fiction -- short stories, novels, TV shows, movies, video games.

It will be interesting to see science fiction in the conventional _forms_ of fantasy -- epics, ballads, poetry, fairy tales, onomastics, runic and incantatory forms of language....

(As an aside, I've heard rumors of published contemporary sci-fi written in classical Sanskrit verse but I can't find any -- is this really a thing?)

Re: Astronautilia

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Post by sdwr » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #4

algon33 wrote: post #2

This is the most insane thing I've read about this year.

For the most insane thing you've listened to this year, try Mouth Dreams

It's been...

Re: Astronautilia

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Post by isoprophlex » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:39 PM UTC

Tell me about a complicated sheep, o Muse,

of how it bleated as it saw all of our world

and made it real just being there, a holy ewe

Maybe we'll have an Emily Wilson translation of the Astronautilia one day, I'd read that for sure!

Re: Astronautilia

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Post by mjfl » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 8:41 PM UTC

I always wonder what books there are out there, that are very interesting, with no English translation. Must be a lot of them.