![]() ![]() ![]() Only in Borges do all elements seem equal, similar in concept to his own aleph, to return in a style similar to Borges himself. Genre writing seems to emphasize the gimmick, in mainstream writing it is simply one part of the landscape against which the characters are placed. I like Borges because his approach to a fantastic concept is unlike any found in the genre. It is hard to find a match for Borges in the genre, because he was always succinct, and could never have survived in the dog-eat-dog world of pay by word.) The gimmick is simple–the aleph is to space what eternity is to time–but the method by which the author discovers it is unusual. ![]() Ballard condensed novel with more connections and a higher sense of the fantastic. (For those who don’t read outside of SF, imagine a J.G. “The Aleph”–Like most of his stories, this one is brief but packs a lot of information into its short length. The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges. ![]()
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