Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford

Author:Jeffrey Ford [Ford, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-07-31T14:00:00+00:00

A Note About “Daltharee”

This story originally appeared in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow, and got some good reviews as well as coverage in the Los Angeles Times. It would be almost impossible to be my age and, in writing a bottled-city story, not have been influenced by Kandor, the capital city of the planet Krypton, which was shrunken and bottled by Superman’s nemesis, Brainiac. The most interesting thing to me about “Daltharee” is that it just barely misses adding up and making sense. This was intentional on my part; I was interested for a while in stories that are made to be consciously misshapen or broken in some way. No one ever complained about the fact that the shrinking of the city, Daltharee, and the smaller and smaller reproductions of it really don’t account for its proliferation and/or its infecting of the scientist/protagonist, Mando Paige. The story seems like it ought to make sense, and in a way, that seems to have been enough for readers.

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