From: Stephen Kagan
Location: Victoria, BC
Date: 09/25/2009
Thank you for writing The First of Ishanaxade. It was beautiful and poetic. Maybe the most vivid and dramatic part of the novel so far. I will have to reread this part again since it paints such a nice scene in my mind. It will haunt me for a wile yet. Ishtar, Izanami?
When you conceived the story of The City or when it was conceived in your imagination where was this scene in the process?
This story of The City as a whole reminds me of a simmering mixture of Stapledon's Star Maker and Zelazny's Amber with a nice dash of Borges. A tasty and rich soup or gumbo to beat eaten slowly in the beginning. Thanks. I'll keep reading hoping for more of Ishanaxade. Almost peaked to the end just to see if she was there. I'll wait.
Shalom,
Stephen
From: Greg Bear
Date: 09/26/2009
With a name like Ishanaxade, she has to be in the story from the very start, no? The core of the story had to be a metaphysical romance.
From: Mike Glosson
Location: San Diego - Normal Heights
Date: 09/27/2009
Have I missed something (again)?
From: Greg Bear
Date: 10/14/2009
Sheharazade, Mike.
From: Stephen Kagan
Location: Victoria, BC
Date: 10/19/2009
Ok. I can see shades of Scheherazade but also Penelp and Odysseus. Maybe even more so. What do you think?
From: Greg Bear
Date: 11/05/2009
Only if there are suitors in the wings! Which might be scary.
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