tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post8447936805571120002..comments2024-03-26T14:48:15.857-07:00Comments on Rocket Stack Rank: Wind Will Rove, by Sarah PinskerGreg Hullenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16720604327299886491noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-72761803930612361812018-07-20T17:50:02.032-07:002018-07-20T17:50:02.032-07:00That sounds like an accurate description of the di...That sounds like an accurate description of the difference between literary and genre fiction. And it would help explain why this story fell flat for me, since I don't really care for literary fiction.Sie Fiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01737995987723790651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-56125854535348627812018-07-18T15:50:25.095-07:002018-07-18T15:50:25.095-07:00It's a literary story in an SF setting, I'...It's a literary story in an SF setting, I'd say. Someone at a writing workshop once told me that the biggest thing that differentiates literary writing from mainstream and genre is that in literary writing, nothing much changes except for the protagonist's understanding of the world and his/her place in it. Genre and (to a lesser degree) Mainstream stories involve a protagonist trying to actually <i>do</i> something and either succeeding (sometimes in a different way than original imagined) or else failing heroically. The stakes tend to be especially high in SF stories, so a literary story in an SF setting is a rare bird indeed. I'm surprised this one has been so popular, to tell you the truth, although I did like it personally.Greg Hullenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16720604327299886491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-77104721398537856182018-07-18T15:40:09.223-07:002018-07-18T15:40:09.223-07:00Nothing seems to happen here. At one point, the au...Nothing seems to happen here. At one point, the author hints at a coming catastrophe, but it never arrives. I wish it had. It would have made for a better story. <br /><br />Some of the musical elements were interesting, but I couldn't relate to the characters' obsession with preserving old fiddle tunes. Even by sci-fi standards, it seemed like a stretch.<br /><br />2/5Sie Fiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01737995987723790651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-44042740702527648382018-03-04T09:53:55.204-08:002018-03-04T09:53:55.204-08:00Thanks. By the way, you can use html in comments. ...Thanks. By the way, you can use html in comments. So if you wrote "Here's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2315559861">my take at Goodreads</a>, with more links." it would look like this: <br /><br />Here's <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2315559861" rel="nofollow">my take at Goodreads</a>, with more links.Greg Hullenderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16720604327299886491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-87278637230254171072018-03-03T18:18:49.658-08:002018-03-03T18:18:49.658-08:00I liked this story a lot. It's available as a ...I liked this story a lot. It's available as a free read on the author's website:<br />http://www.sarahpinsker.com/wind_will_rove<br /><br />Here's my take at Goodreads, with more links:<br />https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2315559861<br />Peter D. Tillmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342712377224906147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-49116936518524394162018-02-26T06:14:04.288-08:002018-02-26T06:14:04.288-08:00I actually played the violin when I was younger so...I actually played the violin when I was younger so that added something to the story for me.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16119082365881285289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-12913529079230829792018-02-26T02:51:31.255-08:002018-02-26T02:51:31.255-08:00This is a serious literary piece, or a think-y SF ...This is a serious literary piece, or a think-y SF story (as opposed to an action story). I had to read it in multiple separate sittings, and the themes required some thought.<br /><br />Firstly, if you are getting bored with it, read to and inclusive of Nelson's bit. Nelson appears about a third of the way into the story, and gets progressively bratty, but he has a point. Then decide.<br /><br />I read to the end and it is a lovely story, and it hits you with the ending.<br /><br />If I was born on a ship like that I'd want to know why, and what the ancestral home world was like, but people should form their own new sub-culture as well, and adapt things to suit their environment.<br /><br />I have zero knowledge of music but some appreciation for history, and this story worked for me.Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08645772819461388524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-29657882407210938942018-02-23T07:44:46.761-08:002018-02-23T07:44:46.761-08:00Can see why this one's gotten a lot of attenti...Can see why this one's gotten a lot of attention -- Locus List, Clarke's Year's Best, Nebula Finalist. Lovely story about stories, music, and stories about music.Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16119082365881285289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1390876285955310032.post-27767556879139428982017-12-10T14:48:49.759-08:002017-12-10T14:48:49.759-08:00I loved this story. I recalled it when I heard an...I loved this story. I recalled it when I heard an interview with Adam Gopnik, and he said "that it’s our task as people to find new ways of rearticulating our sense of spiritual practice, our sense of the essential, the necessity of irrational ritual, in ways that are adjusted to their [our] time. That seems to me to be one of the essential themes: how we give our lives meaning through some mixture of re-enacting history and living our present experience. Great read!Heidihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03459400260733922744noreply@blogger.com