yhlee: Drop Ships from Race for the Galaxy (RTFG)
yhlee ([personal profile] yhlee) wrote in [personal profile] dhampyresa 2018-01-17 03:50 am (UTC)

I read it when it came out--we literally bought it off a supermarket rack. I was more into big epic fantasies at the time. The main reason I gave up on it was that it was still coming out and my memory sucks and the prospect of rereading each time a new book was released made me want to cry. But unlike certain other authors, Erikson actually delivered the whole thing, year after year, and it's now done, so in principle I could read the whole thing straight through to finish if I wanted to.

His hilarious sf parody (mostly a Star Trek parody, but with bits and bobs of other things) Willful Child is completely different. I of course have no privileged access to his thought processes and haven't read interviews with him or anything, but I can only imagine him thinking to himself, I HAVE SPENT TEN YEARS WRITING FANTASY EPIC SAGA TIME FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Anyway, there's one chapter of Willful Child that manages the bravura feat of simultaneously parodying "The City on the Edge of Forever," "The Trouble with Tribbles," and lolcat memes. I got whiplash reading it.

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