Download Now The Einstein Intersection Composed By Samuel R. Delany Published As Digital Paper

no denying Delany's enormous influence on the genre, yet I always seem to have trouble connecting to his writing.
Perhaps my powers of imagination are lacking, or my ability to see beyond to something deeper, or my skill in piecing together the puzzles he lays out, but reading him always seems like a chore.
I find his style irritatingly imprecise, disjointed and illusory, falling short of a compelling narrative, My two cents. The Einstein won the Nebula Award for Best Novel inand was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in.
It is an extraordinary book with lots of characters that their behaviors and colloquys in this book would confuse you at first read.
The story seemed that characters didn't know their world, and their daily routines were just not resemble to the way they had had.
But if we read the story further, would find out that the planet which they dwelt in wasn't theirs.
The mythoses even anecdotes they learnt from their ancestors weren't their own ,instead telling other species's tales yes this other species is us, human.
I really like the concept of this book, maybe this is why the book won the Nebula Award in.
I was drawn in this authentic world immediately when I was reading it, By the unique abstractions I think it was easily hooked me in the world sometimes or most of time that even characters whom I didn't understand.

The story truly has splendid vibe to readers, as we followed the protagonist Lobey who was searching for his beloved dead lady, Friza.
The journey for him wasn't only his hero quest also was an introspected of selfdiscover and the analysis of mythology.
And from the description of Lobey, we already perceived those characters are not like human,

What I look like Ugly and grinning most of the time, That's a whole lot of big nose and gray eyes and wide mouth crammed on a small brown face proper for a fox.
That, all scratched around with spun brass for hair, I hack most of it off every two months or so with my machete, Grows back fast. Which is odd, because I'm twentythree and no beard yet, I have a figure like a bowling pin, thighs, calves, and feet of a man gorilla twice my size which is about fivenine and hips to match.


The story was not about human being but those creatures with eccentric appearances, We would see other modern like techniques like the computer, screen panels, they were remained by human whom already left earth long time ago, and later earth had new inhabitants.
Those new dwellers were living in earth for a long time, most of them forgot previous master of earth but with myths and tales, they were living like human, were telling human's stories although they didn't know what the stories mean and didnt care.
The story basically was a retelling mythology, the charactes's destiny were similar to the myth, they were becoming too similar to us to identify their old life before they came to earth.
Some of the characters had superpower , however the story wasn't cliche owing to these superpower that how to be used as writing in the story.
Nevertheless, these superpower are exactly fit in the world where the characters lived in, This book has fantastic abstractions and polished world building in less thanpages, I didn't know this kind of book exist before I read book recommendations from The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction by Neil Gaiman.
I'm glad I did pick it up and read, Razmontirani Orfej na Delanijev način uz primjesu Isusa, Sotone i izdajice Jude, Vrlo neobično štivo, zahtjevno do krajnjih granica, Toliko kompleksno da sam nekoliko puta vraćao poglavlja i mrštio se ne bih li uhvatio niti, Strašno je kako se stilski razlikuje od bilo koje SF knjige koju ste pročitali, opije vas i udavi već nakon prvog paragrafa, ali oni strpljivijia rekao bih i načitaniji i svakako nije za početnike će uživati i na kraju dobiti zasluženu nagradu.

Uklapa sve poznate religiozne motive u priču na jedan potpuno degenerirani način, a time i popali više rock en roll kulturu u svaki dio romana, pogotovo na dijelovima gdje naš Lo Lobey svira i izvrće svoje note prvo malo rock pa onda malo roll.
Opet kažem, vrlo vrlo čudna knjiga, zapravo mi fali riječ kako bih objasnio pravu njezinu narav,

Kratko o sadržaju:

U dalekoj budućnosti jedna rasa je došla na Zemlju jer su joj se svidjela zemljina dobra, kultura i način života te uzimaju formu ljudi i pokušavaju se ponašati poput nas.
Nakon nekoliko generacija došlo je do mutacija, poprilično nepredvidljivih, pa je i njihova rasa u problemima jer je sve više hemafrodita.
Glavni junak Lo LObeyOrfej odlazi u potragu za svojom Frizom Euridikom i kroz putavanje iz malog mjesta u velebni grad promatra promjenu društva i svijeta.
Na tom putu sreće sve one gore nabrojane likove i kroz njihovo ponašanje uviđamo da svijet u kojemu žive nije ono na što smo naviknuli.
Lo Lobey kreće u potragu za identitetom, i svojim, i svoje vrste, ali kroz šumu likova i scenaod kojih su neka bizarne i nerazumljive dolazi do spoznaje o tome kakvi su ljudi i što, zapravo, njihova ostavština jeste.


Nakon čitanja predlažem pročitati neki trač magazin : ili nešto slično jer se mozak mora ohladiti.



Short with a neat central idea, Humans have left Earth and an alien species has settled instead, They think about what humans were like as they live their lives, Not my favorite Delany but there's still plenty of what makes his writing so great, I think this one is worth coming back to later, to focus on the larger idea and not on the plot.
I don't know what to say about this book, It very obviously wasn't for me, It was obtuse. It regularly put me to sleep, even though it was onlypages long, The best part of the book was the introduction written by Neil Gaiman, and even then, I felt like he set the book up to fail, Because what he painted was not what this book was, It was myth, metaphor, an attempt at telling a story but telling it in a way that was purposely confusing.
I dunno, I guess I'm not smart enough to get it, I recognized classic characters from various myths around the world, but I still couldn't wrap my head around it.
I hope the next SampL pick is better, this wasn't a great start to, I would be a liar if I said I could map out the plot to this novel in any kind of linear fashion.
One read through is definitely not enough, So, is it even permissible to give the book my highest rating when I cannot, admittedly, lay the plot out in a plain diagram for you

Oh, heck yes!

This book will play tricks with your mind, no doubt.
But if you enjoy strange dreams that hold their own internal logic unexplainable in the waking world, but somehow making perfect sense to your sleeping self you might just love this novella.
When I finished it, I felt like I had just woken up from a very deep, sad, meaningful dream, still slightly intoxicated and a bit confused.


I even struggle to clearly outline who or what the main antagonist, Kid Death, is, I seriously considered the following options as I read, . .

. Alternate personality of Lobey, the main character
, Computer generated "being" enabled by ancient humans
, Supernatural being
. Result of bad head wound to Lobey

, . . and concluded that none of them were correct, though each of them could have been,

And this seems to be at the heart of what Delany has written here: A Godelian "possibility space" that cannot be deciphered from within, but must be understood on an intuitive, subconscious

level by the reader, who is completely outside of the character's possibility space.
The reader is, in essence, the "Einstein Intersection," encompassing the possible limits of what the characters, plot, and setting fundamentally are because she or he is beyond the limits of the internal understanding of those in the book.
Though this can be the case for just about any book, Delany is particularly deft at getting the reader "into" the book and world, through the use of bread crumbs strung along to pull the reader "out" of their own metafictional reality, convincing the reader that she or he can understand the The Einstein Intersection's world on its own terms.
Again, though, the reader, being a real human being, is, in reality, above all that and is capable of objectifying the text as a piece of fiction.
This doesn't mean that the reader will or can fully understand what is "going on," because that would imply that the reader fully encompasses what is in Samuel R.
Delany's head. Rather, reading the novel is a lot like having a conversation with a native speaker of a foreign language that one is in the early stages of learning: The reader "understands" some of the vocabulary and the easier stretches of grammar, without knowing the nuances of the language and, most importantly, without knowing what the speaker is feeling or thinking in any meaningful way.


But this does not mean that there aren't connections being made, Some aspects of the conversation are carried from one person to the other by way of the subconscious absorption via context, others by the intuitive reading of body language communication that is not formally spoken or, in the case of reading Delany's novel, the evocation of feelings and thoughts, some rather complex, that arise from the author's prose.
In other words, I can't get into Delany's head, but I can have some notion of what he's getting at, regardless of whether I fully understand the entirety at once or not.


What, then, do I think Delany is getting at with The Einstein Intersection I think he's getting at the tenderness of human longing and the comingled loneliness and pride in being "different".
I think he's sharing, on a very visceral level, how lonely one often feels when one is not "in the norm" but acknowledging that walking alone can be, in some small way, a victory march over "normalcy".
Lobey, the main character is, if nothing else, vulnerable and, to some extent, innocent, But he is also powerful, able to plunge through death and hell for the sake of misplaced spurned love.


That's a story worth struggling to understand,
The Einstein Intersection: New Wave SF with style but story lacks discipline
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It doesn't get any more New Wave SF than this very slimNebulawinning novelpages, and it's hard to imagine anything like this being written today.
It's a mythical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story in a farfuture Earth populated by the mutated remnants of humanity.


Being a Delany book, the writing is disjointed, jazzy, lyrical, playful, and tantalizing, The surface events are fairly obscure, but it's clear that the real narrative is buried beneath, and in case you didn't catch on, every chapter has several obscure and fairly pretentious quotes from intellectuals, not least of all the author himself, who inserts between chapters snippets of his journals from his artistic travels in the Mediterranean while writing this book, in classic metafiction style.
Even in a longer book Id view this literary device as fairly selfindulgent, but when the entire story ispages, its seems downright insulting to the reader.
Its very clear that reader expectations and tastes have changed dramatically in the last half century,

The plot, to be charitable, involves LoLobey, a humanoid mutant in the far future who sounds more like a Neanderthal with great brute strength but limited brain capacity.
He is a musician who plays his sword like a flute, and when his love Friza disappears one day, he sets out on a quest to find her.
His nemesis is a fearful superbeing called Kid Death, a mutant with the power to kill seemingly at will who is intent on wiping out other mutants which makes you wonder why he doesnt dispatch them all with a flick of the wrist.


One of the key themes of the book is the mythical overtones of the LoLobeys Orpheuslike quest into the underworld, and by far the most amazing and intense part of the book is the extended sequence in which LoLobey hunts down a massive minotaur underground and battles him.
The writing is fantastic and if the book had been able to sustain more passages like this, I would have liked the novel much more.
As it is, I felt that was the high point and the narrative collapsed afterward,

The other major theme is mutation as a metaphor for being “different”, and when we consider that Delany himself was a gay black poet growing up in Harlem, that makes sense.
He married highschool classmate poet Marilyn Hacker after high school, but they experimented with polygamy and had affairs with both men and women, and Marilyn later declared herself lesbian after their divorce.
So its fair to say Delany would consider himself different, The underlying theme of the story also strongly identifies with the mutants, and at the end of the story LoLobey realizes that instead of imitating the traditions of the extinct human race, the aliens for that is what they are need to embrace their differences and live on their own terms.
This may make sense thematically, but to shoehorn such a complex idea into the fragile vessel of this story is really overreaching in my opinion.


Nonetheless, it's hard to believe this book won the Nebula and was nominated for the Hugo, since it wouldn't even get a consideration now and might only count as a novella.
I wish I could have been in on the award committee deliberations, There must have been an oldguard group supporting Golden Age writers, and a much younger, hipper, coffeehouse social activist group on the other side, locked in a deadly struggle for supremacy.
Tracking the Hugo and Nebula winners through past decades is a fascinating barometer of the changing times and SF readership, something that an MA thesis could be devoted to.
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