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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap ( talk · contribs) 16:12, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
In the 1966 edition it is headed "Prologue: The Necklace".
It immediately struck me that the lead does not make clear that the Fomalhaut story is framed by Rocannon's reports of life-forms, and by an unnamed narrator's musings on "Rocannon's story" (as the narrator calls it on the first page). There is double framing - or is it triple: we have the reflective musings, then the species reports in italics, then a brief section in which Rocannon discusses with Ketho the curator, then "She was of an ancient family..." I think this
framing needs to be described, at least; ideally its significance should also be discussed and cited. I note that 'framing' is only mentioned in the final paragraph! That could form the basis of a 'Framing' section.
The
Brísingamen theme could be illustrated with an image of the pendant, or indeed of a
torc.
The theme of time in
Faerie is mentioned in one review but not really explained; and it is not connected with the mention of time dilation in the previous review/paragraph. Perhaps the theme deserves to be drawn out in a paragraph or section of its own, as it is key to the story, just as it is in the tale of the
Mermaid of Zennor (which I'm sure Le Guin retells somewhere, though I can't locate it; the luckless youth is taken by the mermaid down to her father's house at the bottom of the sea, where he spends a wild few days and blissful nights, but tears himself away to return to his Cornish village, which has fallen into ruins during the century of his absence...). Semley's Necklace is (on this view) a retelling of a Time-of-Faerie story with the addition of space travel as an explanation.
Perhaps the ISBN-10s should be
replaced with ISBN-13s.
I think that's about all I have to say. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 16:38, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap ( talk · contribs) 16:12, 22 July 2018 (UTC)
In the 1966 edition it is headed "Prologue: The Necklace".
It immediately struck me that the lead does not make clear that the Fomalhaut story is framed by Rocannon's reports of life-forms, and by an unnamed narrator's musings on "Rocannon's story" (as the narrator calls it on the first page). There is double framing - or is it triple: we have the reflective musings, then the species reports in italics, then a brief section in which Rocannon discusses with Ketho the curator, then "She was of an ancient family..." I think this
framing needs to be described, at least; ideally its significance should also be discussed and cited. I note that 'framing' is only mentioned in the final paragraph! That could form the basis of a 'Framing' section.
The
Brísingamen theme could be illustrated with an image of the pendant, or indeed of a
torc.
The theme of time in
Faerie is mentioned in one review but not really explained; and it is not connected with the mention of time dilation in the previous review/paragraph. Perhaps the theme deserves to be drawn out in a paragraph or section of its own, as it is key to the story, just as it is in the tale of the
Mermaid of Zennor (which I'm sure Le Guin retells somewhere, though I can't locate it; the luckless youth is taken by the mermaid down to her father's house at the bottom of the sea, where he spends a wild few days and blissful nights, but tears himself away to return to his Cornish village, which has fallen into ruins during the century of his absence...). Semley's Necklace is (on this view) a retelling of a Time-of-Faerie story with the addition of space travel as an explanation.
Perhaps the ISBN-10s should be
replaced with ISBN-13s.
I think that's about all I have to say. Chiswick Chap ( talk) 16:38, 22 July 2018 (UTC)