i thought 'Air' was a skiffy book trying its best to look like Grown-Up Literature
Do you mean that Air was trying to assume an aura of respectability generally associated with general fiction? Because there are enough WTF moments in the book (the entire hospital segment, the stomach pregnancy) in which it wears its skiffy credentials proudly. Unlike, say, Never Let Me Go, I don't see Air as using SFnal elements as a means to a cause.
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Date: 2007-01-05 05:34 pm (UTC)Do you mean that Air was trying to assume an aura of respectability generally associated with general fiction? Because there are enough WTF moments in the book (the entire hospital segment, the stomach pregnancy) in which it wears its skiffy credentials proudly. Unlike, say, Never Let Me Go, I don't see Air as using SFnal elements as a means to a cause.