Bruce Sterling on My Paving the Primrose Path to Hell

Dec
28
2005
Holy Fire (Bantam Spectra Book)

I'm not sure how I missed it when he wrote it, but a few weeks ago, when I put up my article on dogearing pages and writing in books, Bruce Sterling, a writer I have immense respect for, wrote up a great commentary on it.

Just so you know, Bruce, my copy of Holy Fire bears many an unholy mark and modification and will likely fall victim to my book origami and inscription as the boomer generation retires and that book looks more like documentary than science fiction.

Choice quotes include:

…this is the gateway drug to postliterate, paper-chewing info-intoxication…

(((Dante must have created a special circle in hell for former English majors and turncoat librarians with this cheery postliterate attitude; probably, while they're forced to do endless comparative-lit studies, demons flay off their skins , and then fling them into the hellish gloom like discarded book-jackets.)))

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