Thank you so much for stopping by! Not everyone's arrived, yet- but I've still yet to get all the cheeses onto all the crackers, and- you brought a bottle of wine with you, right? Good- good. This is going to be fun, I think. I've always wanted to start a book club. I'm glad I finally found Skip and had someone organized enough to actually pull the thing off!
We wanted to start the show off on the right foot, so Skip and I dug into the Bad Dog Books archive and pulled out this entry from FANG 3 by K.M. Hirosaki, "Sanguine and Clockwork." Written to fit the anthology's theme of erotic fantasy, the story commits to a fantastic process of developing the relationship of two characters - Florian, a wizard, and Rentell, a Lord - to tell the story of a third character - Vico, an artificial fox crafted through sorcery and responding only and immediately to direct commands.
You can read the story right here on the Book Club website, where you'll also find links to the story on FurAffinity and SoFurry so you can share your thoughts with the author directly.
For all the people who can't read while driving like I can (though that might explain why I'm always driving over all those cliffs) we also have an audio book read by our very own Alex Vance.
Next episode, we'll be discussing Double Blind by Teiran from ROAR Volume 2. You can read it here and leave comments – we might just discuss your thoughts or questions on air in our next meeting.
Thanks again for coming to this week's book club!
A little word about homonculus. It's a word created with the latin homo, hominis (man) (as you rightfully mentioned), and the suffix -culus, which means little. You have that same suffix in minuscule for example : minus means small, so with -culus, it means "smaller than small".
ReplyDeleteTechnically, it means "little man", but in the sense of "inferior form of man".
Nice podcast though : I'm off reading the story (doing things backwards will allow my mind to be soothed by your voices a second time) and I'll surely be back with something more usefull to say !
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ReplyDeleteYou described Florian as a very cold, distant calculator locked in his world, but I think that what makes this character so rich is that he's desperatly looking for a human contact throughout the whole story, even at the cost of his own work and study, and what makes him so pathetic is that there was nothing he could do, in his actual state of mind, to make it work. All he wanted, in the end, was a pair of loving eyes to meet his. His powerlessness perhaps foreshadowed his spiritual death at the end.
ReplyDeleteI think this bookclub is a great idea, and I found your discussion very thought provoking. I haven't yet read as much of KM's stuff as I should, and I enjoyed the opportunity to do so and hear some well-thought out opinions on it. Can't wait for the next episode!
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