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| | princeofcairo: Canadian Cosmic Horror Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The notion that Robert Charles Wilson, whose Darwinia, Chronoliths, and Mysterium all impressed me mightily with their conceit and their intellectual bravery, had written a linked collection of short stories that could be read as a Lovecraftian exercise interested me strangely. |
 | | I would argue, at least as a starting place, that Move Under Ground is a satisfactory version of the more common sort of worthwhile Mythos story, in which the author finds one facet of the Mythos that can be shaped to cover the story they actually wanted to write. |
 | | A smattering of sample phrases, one from (almost) each story: "entities that live and evolve entirely in the logarithms of computers, the high alps of the gnososphere"; "the ideal paracartographical map charts not a territory but a mind, or at least it merges the two"; "One doesn't have to understand in order to look. |
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