{"id":294636,"date":"2013-07-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/07\/16\/latest-review-trafalgar-by-angelica-gorodischer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:44","slug":"latest-review-trafalgar-by-angelica-gorodischer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/07\/16\/latest-review-trafalgar-by-angelica-gorodischer\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Trafalgar" by Ang\u00e9lica Gorodischer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is by Chad W. Post on Trafalgar<\/em> by Ang\u00e9lica Gorodischer, from Small Beer Press.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of Chad’s review:<\/p>\n

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The author of more than twenty works of science fiction\u2014both story collections and novels\u2014Ang\u00e9lica Gorodischer was first introduced to English readers in 2003 with Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was<\/em>, a patchwork novel that uses a variety of writing styles\u2014fairy tales, oral histories, and political commentaries, among others\u2014to depict the rise and fall of a nameless empire. Although Trafalgar<\/em> works in the opposite direction\u2014this book is a collection of intertwined stories wherein Trafalgar, merchant to all parts of the universe, tells stories about a cornucopia of strange worlds that he visits in his travels\u2014the same literary touchstones are there: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities<\/em>, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick. And although Trafalgar<\/em> fails to surpass the best works of its literary forebearers, it is a really charming book that highlights Gorodischer’s incredible world-building abilities. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Each chapter takes the form of someone (usually the narrator) listening to one of Trafalgar’s wild tales about some unique world or other while he pounds gallons of coffee and digresses all over the place. Like something dreamt up by Kilgore Trout, these worlds often have strange societal arrangements\u2014like in “By the Light of the Chaste Electronic Moon,” which describes a civilization ruled by 1,000 women who retain their power in part by having sex only once a year, via a virtual reality creating machine\u2014that illuminate something interesting about human nature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the review, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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