The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant
“This is a story in the “tell it” vein. I was influenced in writing this piece by the book, Ka, a reconfiguration of the stories of the Gods of India, by Roberto Calasso. These amazing myths take all kinds of wild and wacky plot twists without warning. They waste little time on devices that contemporary fiction insists upon to suspend disbelief. The concept at the end of “The Far Oasis” that deals with the radical altering of a species through unnatural selection came to me through an essay in C...arl Sagan’s collection Cosmos. In this essay, he tells about a place in the Sea of Japan, where a princess and her Samurai retinue drowned themselves instead of being captured by the enemy. Local crab harvesters, in the ages that followed, sometimes found crabs with a mottling on their shells that somewhat depicted the face of a Samurai and would throw them back in honor of that ancient sacrifice.MoreLess
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