#WritersCoffeeClub Aug 27: How traditional is your writing? Which tradition?
I have no idea what this question even means in the context of my fiction.
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@cstross Since a large amount of your work explicitly invokes (dangerous word, in this context) Lovecraft, then I'd say you have rifled this near-century old tradition quite a bit.
Less so, recently, I grant.
Less so, recently, I grant.
@WellsiteGeo I prefer to think of what I do as *perverting* that particular tradition. I like to think Lovecraft himself would hate the content of my writing but be unable to disown it as a descendant of his own.
@cstross I think I noticed (more?) footnotes in your recent novels. Is this in Terry Pratchett's memory?
@rayckeith Nope, it's my own thing.
@cstross
*Looks up from a pile of worn out quills amidst lit tapers and incense smoke*
What tradition be this, Gnostic, Hermetic or be it some other upstart bauldurdashe?
@cstross
You know: do you write science fiction like Chaucer wrote science fiction?
You know: do you write science fiction like Chaucer wrote science fiction?
@dougmerritt @cstross
Hyperion was the Canterbury Tales with giant time traveling metal horrors beyond your comprehension but yes.
@dougmerritt Chaucer never wrote science fiction.
@cstross @dougmerritt Yes, just science (first English astronomy textbook!) and separately fiction
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