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Dec. 23rd, 2019 07:26 pm196. Gaudeamus, John Barnes
(reread) Is it the weirdest of the Good John Barnes books? Possibly. Is it the most self-referential? Definitely. Gaudeamus is narrated by John Barnes, the SF writer and theater professor and general semiotician, largely as an ongoing tale told to him by Travis Bismarck (who might also be a person in our world) with occasional minor appearances by Kara Dalkey (John's wife in the novel and reality) and other people who might or might not be real. Gaudeamus is a wildly popular web comic. Gaudeamus is a top secret physics project. Gaudeamus is a new party drug. Gaudeamus is signifier and significant.
Sadly, Gaudeamus is fiction, or else something interesting should have happened in 2011.
(reread) Is it the weirdest of the Good John Barnes books? Possibly. Is it the most self-referential? Definitely. Gaudeamus is narrated by John Barnes, the SF writer and theater professor and general semiotician, largely as an ongoing tale told to him by Travis Bismarck (who might also be a person in our world) with occasional minor appearances by Kara Dalkey (John's wife in the novel and reality) and other people who might or might not be real. Gaudeamus is a wildly popular web comic. Gaudeamus is a top secret physics project. Gaudeamus is a new party drug. Gaudeamus is signifier and significant.
Sadly, Gaudeamus is fiction, or else something interesting should have happened in 2011.
