{"id":4362,"date":"2011-02-14T07:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/02\/14\/zuky-wildunicornherd\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T04:42:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T04:42:19","slug":"zuky-wildunicornherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/02\/14\/zuky-wildunicornherd\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zuky.tumblr.com\/post\/3240286561\">zuky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wildunicornherd.tumblr.com\/post\/3239793250\">wildunicornherd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory.tumblr.com\/post\/3235266926\">fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Octavio Paz &amp; Jorge Luis Borges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sci Fi Recs:<\/strong> Contemporary science fiction comprises a plethora of subgenres, national traditions, and fan cultures\u2014and its roots are equally diverse. As far as I\u2019m concerned, it\u2019s just plain wrong to talk about the origin of sf and mention Mary Shelley and Hugo Gernsback but not Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian proto-postmodernist.<\/p>\n<p>Borges didn\u2019t do robots or rocket ships or any of the other superficial trappings of sf. Those are weird <em>subjects<\/em>; Borges weirded the story itself, and the teller \u2014 metafiction, the unreliable narrator, dreams and labyrinths and libraries and memory and time. There\u2019s echoes of his stuff in many writers who write what I think of as \u201chonorary science fiction\u201d, like Eco, Calvino and Saramago, but a good many honest-to-goodness genre-ghetto sf writers <a href=\"http:\/\/themodernword.com\/borges\/borges_influence.html\">count Borges as an influence<\/a> as well: Jeff VanderMeer, Stanislaw Lem, Lucius Shepard, and (one of my favourite authors) Gene Wolfe, who once said \u201cmagic realism is fantasy written by people who speak Spanish\u201d. Personally, I agree that when it comes to speculative fiction we should throw the net as wide as we can\u2014which is why I think of Borges\u2019 stories as sci-fi, plain and simple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Online work:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jubal.westnet.com\/hyperdiscordia\/library_of_babel.html\">\u201cThe Library of Babel\u201d<\/a> (1941). Hey, who turned out the lights\u2026?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldbacon.com\/writing\/borges-tlon.html\">\u201cTl\u00f6n, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius\u201d<\/a> (1940). Takes the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/transformativeworks.org\/node\/6\">\u201ctransformative works\u201d<\/a> to its logical conclusion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american-buddha.com\/garden.fork.htm\">\u201cThe Garden of Forking Paths\u201d<\/a> (1941).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>TL;DR:<\/strong> Just read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ficciones\"><em>Ficciones<\/em><\/a>, thank me later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Big fan of both of these writers. Borges is good at blowing your mind and bending perception. I like that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zuky: wildunicornherd: fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory: Octavio Paz &amp; Jorge Luis Borges. Sci Fi Recs: Contemporary science fiction comprises a plethora of subgenres, national traditions, and fan cultures\u2014and its roots are equally diverse. As far as I\u2019m concerned, it\u2019s just plain wrong to talk about the origin of sf and mention Mary Shelley and Hugo Gernsback but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-18m","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1907,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/12\/nevver-jorge-luis-borges\/","url_meta":{"origin":4362,"position":0},"title":"nevver: Jorge Luis Borges","author":"monochromist","date":"June 12, 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"nevver: Jorge Luis Borges","rel":"","context":"In &quot;motion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"motion","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/category\/video_graphics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monochromist.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/tumblr_moak03WmGt1qz6f9yo1_500.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1945,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/10\/who-will-you-be-tonight-in-your-dreamfall-into-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":4362,"position":1},"title":"Who will you be tonight\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"June 10, 2013","format":"quote","excerpt":"Who will you be tonight in your dreamfall into the dark, on the other side of the wall? 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