Author Archives: Elyse DiCesare

Rumpelstilzchen/Spoilers

I remember reading “The House of the Scorpion” when I was in middle school, and after re-reading it over the long break, I was kind of confused.  It seemed like I had read an entirely different novel years ago.  This was the first real “sci-fi” novel I had ever read, and it was for class …

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I know I have t…

I know I have this backwards (sorry Sample, Jambrose) but I think its better this way.             Reading through Blindsight, I was unimpressed with the “imagine you are Siri Keeton” passages.  They read as tedious, and sort of like those “choose your own adventure” novels, but less entertaining and with more summarization.  So with this …

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English 451 2011-10-31 00:37:22

Akin,
Don’t get kidnapped.
Lilith
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ALIENS

The most alien thing Lilith has to deal with is the lack of humans she’s come in contact with.  In class, we had a lot of people commenting that they assumed “Lilith’s Brood” was some sort of vampire book or some other supernatural characters of some sort would be opposite Lilith.   She’s put in surprisingly …

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stink boss

We3 gives me weird, battle royaley vibes. Lost animals given biomechanic weapons and forced to fight their own kind.  Sure, its been done before, but, for some reason, audiences are always more sympathetic to animals.  The animals are made into monstrous robots, with similar qualities to Frankenstien’s monster.  Limited speech, creepy bodies and a rather …

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Response to Ashley

http://aattilii.onmason.com/2011/09/27/getting-lost-in-neuromancer/#comment-7 This was supposed to be posted in ashley’s comments, but that pesky spam filter outsmarted me. Totally agree with you, Ashley.  I have a hard time completely immersing myself into the Neuromancer universe as well, mostly due to questions and conundrums regarding the technology in the novel.  For example, Molly’s glasses/goggles.  When/if ever Molly …

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More parallels

I was really fascinated by both these short stories, more specifically “Who Goes There?”  Both John Carpenter’s novella and Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstien” are really ahead of their time.  I know that phrase is often tossed around, and I think we may have touched on this in the first or second class with “Frankenstien”, but I …

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Unreliable Narration

At the conclusion of the novel I realized that Victor Frankenstien could very possibly be a closeted homosexual.  His lackluster reaction to Elizabeth’s death was what really set me off on this sort of nutty idea, but its sort of present throughout the entirety of the novel. Victor lacks romantic love for Elizabeth and instead, …

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More Parallels

Sort of inspired by Ashley’s post before reading the entirety of volume 1, I found a lot of parallels between Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein.  Walton, an explorer and adventurer, is faced with the dilemma of continuing his travels and risking his own life, as well as his crew’s, or realizing his dream and continuing …

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stressmeeout 2011-09-02 04:20:50

i use preexisting themes because i’m unoriginal.
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