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Dzango:
--- Quote --- From Death Masks: I went down to a nearby diner for breakfast, and asked the waitress to turn on the news. She did.
"… extraordinary event reminiscent of the science-fiction horror stories around the turn of the millennium, what appeared to be an asteroid fell from space and impacted just outside the village of Casaverde in Honduras." The screen flickered to an aerial shot of an enormous, smoking hole in the ground, and a half-mile-wide circle of trees that had been blasted flat
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I noticed this during a recent rereading, and I wander if it means something. Death Masks was published 2003, and by my account that is still the turn of the millennium, so how can this event (the fall of the satelite) be reminiscent to some stories written during the same time (probably refers to "Armageddon" , "Deep impact" and similar). Reminiscent in my understanding means remembering something that happened in the past, and not that recently too. So that means that the time in the book is at least a few years ahead of real time. Am I wrong?
Griffworks:
Nothing personal, but I think you're over thinking the use of the word reminiscent.
--- Quote ---Dictionary.com entry for reminiscent
rem·i·nis·cent / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[rem-uh-nis-uhnt]
–adjective 1. awakening memories of something similar; suggestive (usually fol. by of): His style of writing is reminiscent of Melville's.
2. characterized by or of the nature of reminiscence.
3. given to reminiscence: a reminiscent old sailor.
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It just means something that reminds you of past events, usually in your own life experiences.
BTW, what I originally got out of that line from the announcer is that it was more a reference to around the 1900's, to be honest. Basically, a reference to H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds with the description of something falling to earth. I guess Mr. Butcher might well have meant that - or he might have been referencing the movies you mentioned - Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc...
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Griffworks on November 09, 2007, 06:12:28 PM ---BTW, what I originally got out of that line from the announcer is that it was more a reference to around the 1900's, to be honest. Basically, a reference to H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds with the description of something falling to earth. I guess Mr. Butcher might well have meant that - or he might have been referencing the movies you mentioned - Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc...
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Maybe the announcer is the sort of person who has only the vaguest notion of SF as a field and confuses Clarke, Asimov and Heinlein; there are certainly a fair number of those around in reality.
Priscellie:
--- Quote from: Griffworks on November 09, 2007, 06:12:28 PM ---Nothing personal, but I think you're over thinking the use of the word reminiscent.
It just means something that reminds you of past events, usually in your own life experiences.
BTW, what I originally got out of that line from the announcer is that it was more a reference to around the 1900's, to be honest. Basically, a reference to H.G. Wells' novel War of the Worlds with the description of something falling to earth. I guess Mr. Butcher might well have meant that - or he might have been referencing the movies you mentioned - Armageddon, Deep Impact, etc...
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1900's = turn of the century, not millennium. :D
Good observation though, Dzango. Definitely worth thinking about.
AverageGuy:
Where's Molly's age given in White Night? Is there a chance that it's an unreliable narrator?
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