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The House of the Scorpion vs. Blindsight: paratext

Upon starting Nancy Farmer’s young adult novel The House of the Scorpion, I was taken aback by the wealth of information. Not at the end of the book, but at the beginning appears a short appendix: a cast of characters and family tree.This imm… Continue reading

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Acknowledgements in the Second Person

“Blood makes noise.”-Suzanne VegaImagine you are Peter Watts.     Blindsight is your first novel-length foray into deep space–a domain in which you have, shall we say, limited formal education. In that sense the book isn’t far remo… Continue reading

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