Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:A.ALDERSON@[36.48.0.1] From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:A.ALDERSON@[36.48.0.1] Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #19 Message-ID: <308@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 13:21:47 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.308 Posted: Thu Jan 17 13:21:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 01:21:26 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: Alderson@Score >I don't see why an author has to give you a complete glossary and >gazetteer to a fictional universe. As long as he knows what is >happening, according to a thesis by Tolkien, the world he is >describing will seem real enough. (I don't recall the term Tolkien >used to describe the flavor of realism got by placing a story in a >well-thought-out setting--do any of you?). The term is "sub-creation." See Tolkien's essay, 'On Faery Stories,' reprinted in _The Tolkien Reader_. On another topic, the shape-changing alien woman in "Space: 1999" was named Maya--the name of the Hindu/Buddhist goddess of illusion. Another version of her appears in Zelzny's greatest book, _Lord of Light_. Rich Alderson ARPA: Alderson@Score, Alderson@Sierra -------