Challenge 1149
The Worldgame
In Hari Blackmore’s The Wisdom of Hawks: How might the narrative structure, the geographical setting and the characterization suggest that the story is actually an intermediary chapter excerpted from a larger work, such as a novella or novel?
In Robin Helweg-Larsen’s Where Is the Wave?
- To what degree does the poem echo the philosophical conclusion of Antoine Lavoisier, the founder of modern chemistry: “Nothing is lost, nothing is created. In nature, everything is transformed”?
- Does a body of liquid’s constantly changing shape by means of waves constitute loss? If so, loss of what?
- A wave is a material image of space and what other constant?
In Gary Clifton’s Learning Curve:
- What human shortcomings do Percy Smith and Bill Brown especially embody?
- How many times does Hortense try to commit suicide? Might she have succeeded if there had been no intervention?
- AI robots can learn the signs and effects of emotion, but can they learn to feel the emotion itself?
In Jan Starkey’s Georgia Earth: Assuming that the events recounted in Claire’s life in Macon, Georgia are real, what makes the narrative “creatve nonfiction” or, at least, something other than a memoir?
In Sergey Kabskikh’s Crazy Cruise:
- When the two pirates jump overboard, why is it easier for Jack to shoot them from a place above them than from a pont below the one from which they jump?
- Why does Jack “go crazy”? Why is an irrational episode necessary to the plot of the story?
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