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| | The Vance Phile: Issue #1, March 1993 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In the SF, however, it creates an interesting tension, a distance between reader and milieu, a sense of the foreign made real to which the adjective exotic does not quite do justice. |
 | | Perhaps the best example of this is to be seen in The Dragon Masters, where most of the words appropriate to the neofeudalism of Aerlith are obsolete or archaic (fugleman, armamentarium), while names for the technological devices are plain, dcscriptive English (vision-pane, heat-gun) rather than scientific Greco-Latin. |
 | | Aerlith is another low-technology backwater rather than a futuristic gadgeteer's heaven; moreover, this is an ancient future, one with a long history of its own, and the vocabulary emphasizes this mixture of yesterday and tomorrow by invoking our own past. |
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