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|  | "Air Time" by Kristine Ong Muslim
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Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "Air Time" by Kristine Ong Muslim, featured in Issue #9.
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If you haven't read the poem yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the text, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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| | Re: "Air Time" by Kristine Ong Muslim
« Reply #1 on Dec 9, 2008, 4:08pm » | |
Three things:
1. You have to admire a thrifty parasite.
2. The closing lines maintain about as well as anything I've read the idea of cosmic inconsequence--or as I think HPL called it, Indifferentism. A term that has yet to catch on popularly.
3. The poem also reminds me, strangely enough, of an old SF novel I recently read, The Cometeers, by Jack Williamson. Although the parasite and prey were both substantially larger in that case. And for those who might be interested, Cometeers also provides a fair foreshadowing of that more well-known space opera, Star Wars. There's talk of a Force and a weapon not dissimilar in description to the ray/laser of the Death Star.
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