Next Month: Thieves' Night, with "In the Winter Market"

[Eric Scoles]

Next month's R-SPEC meeting will be a "thieves' night" (a.k.a., "what can we steal from these great stories?"). 

Craig deLancey advocated strongly for Gibson's "In the Winter Market." This is a relatively early piece; it's both stylistically and thematically powerful, and brings a perspective to the 'uploaded brain' trope that I think it often doesn't have. Craig will act as champion for this story, and will suggest some places you can find it if you don't have a copy (it's in Burning Chrome and is widely anthologized elsewhere). 

For the second piece, which I'd like to be either thematically or stylistically related, I'm suggesting Catherine Moore's "No Woman Born." It's arguably a little dated technologically, but I've long felt it plumbs a perspective on the nature of humanity that's still under-appreciated to this day, while displaying Moore's & Kuttner's typical stylistic economy and elegance. It deals with many of the same themes as "In the Winter Market," but uses a far more conventional structure. I'll act as champion for that. 

If anyone has a second piece that they think is a better fit, or has better stuff to steal from, please do suggest it. There's a possibility I might not be around for that meeting, so it would be nice to have a backup. 

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[delancey]

"The Winter Market" is short, friends, and so a quick read -- five
minutes and you're done.

If anyone knows of a podcast of it, please post it.

Pirates have posted it, of course. We scoff that and so will not
point at:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/burning_chrome.shtml#market

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