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Contents:
The Heat Death of the Universe (1967)
The Holland of the Mind (1969)
Instructions for Exiting This Building in Case of Fire (1985)
Sheep (1981)
Busy about the Tree of Life (1988)
The Heat Death of the Universe (1967)
The Holland of the Mind (1969)
Instructions for Exiting This Building in Case of Fire (1985)
Sheep (1981)
Busy about the Tree of Life (1988)
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It was one of the science fiction-themed Great Courses I listened to last year that turned me on to Pamela Zoline. The professor described her as one of the greats, a writer ahead of her time, who had only published a single book (a brief collection of five short stories) in 1988, and radio silence ever since. I consider myself fairly well-versed the genre - most of the other authors discussed in the course were familiar - but I had never heard of Zoline. I felt like I'd just stumbled onto an ex
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The title story is a classic, but I recall Brian Aldiss said she was exceptional in general. (1/19/10)
It is a shame we only have one collection from Zoline. The title story alone makes this worth seeking out.
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okay this is something I actually wrote back in 1982 [I found some old college notebooks]...my apologies for all the grammatical errors but I will just copy my review word for word.
"the problem with this story is that it has no purpose other to vent the authors purposelessness.
the story has no moral, nor a message of hope. One wonders if the author wrote this for sympathy, to expound on the drab, dull trivial existence of suburban living, in the hopes that a reader can agree that in a world of S ...more
"the problem with this story is that it has no purpose other to vent the authors purposelessness.
the story has no moral, nor a message of hope. One wonders if the author wrote this for sympathy, to expound on the drab, dull trivial existence of suburban living, in the hopes that a reader can agree that in a world of S ...more
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As I read about the history of feminist science fiction, Zoline's Heat Death of the Universe keeps popping up as part of the established canon for this area of writing. The story is very in line with the era of The Feminine Mystique, but as if voiced by a woman knowledgeable in science, comparing her situation to entropy. It's an emotional piece where readers can feel the slow build of futility in the narrator's life, and understand why her daily activities ...more
As I read about the history of feminist science fiction, Zoline's Heat Death of the Universe keeps popping up as part of the established canon for this area of writing. The story is very in line with the era of The Feminine Mystique, but as if voiced by a woman knowledgeable in science, comparing her situation to entropy. It's an emotional piece where readers can feel the slow build of futility in the narrator's life, and understand why her daily activities ...more
The Heat Death of the Universe is one of my very favorite short stories.
"Sheep" is a unique experience, and inspiring.
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“There must be more than this, Sarah Boyle thinks, from time to time. What could one do to justify one's passage? Or less ambitiously, to change, even in the motion of the smallest mote, the course and circulation of the world? Sometimes Sarah's dreams are of heroic girth, a new symphony using laboratories of machinery and all invented instruments, at once giant in scope and intelligible to all, to heal the bloody breach; a series of paintings which would transfigure and astonish and calm the frenzied art world in its panting race; a new novel that would refurbish language. Sometimes she considers the mystical, the streaky and random, and it seems that one change, no matter how small, would be enough. Turtles are supposed to live for many years. To carve a name, date and perhaps a word of hope upon a turtle's shell, then set him free to wend the world, surely this one act might cancel out absurdity?”
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