Comments on: Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter

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By: Halting State « Torque Control

Halting State « Torque Control — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:40:57 +0000

[...] or even, necessarily, the first. I’m not completely comfortable with Jeff VanderMeer’s response to Matthew Cheney’s column about “Pol Pot’s Beautiful Daughter” — [...]

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:05:25 +0000

No, I prefer “Geoffy”. Much cuter. LOL!

It could be that hearing him read it also changes the emphasis–i.e., my opinion might change. Regardless, the failure, if it is one, is at a high level of technical expertise. I offer up the opinion because (1) I doubt Ryman will suffer because of it, given the WF nod and (2) I gotta stay honest or my street cred is gone.

Jeff

By: Gwenda

Gwenda — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:37:52 +0000

That should be Geoff — my keyboard is throwing out extra “y”s for some reason today!

By: Gwenda

Gwenda — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:37:31 +0000

Geoffy did a flat-out amazing reading of this story at Wiscon two years ago — and I’ll never be able to separate it from his terrifying performance. In some ways, I wish I’d been able to come to it cold, because I find it very hard to read without the shadow of that brilliant reading, to discern what else might be there that I’m missing.