RIP to a real one.
The Soul of a New Machine may be the best technology book written, but House was a beautifully-crafted and deeply humanist book. Funny too!
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Just finished the excellent Hav, a novel about a fictional city by expert travel writer Jan Morris.I'm not sure Hav could be adapted into a traditional TTRPG, but it might make a for wonderful journalling game.
It does give me the ARG/experimental fiction itch though...
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Just finished the excellent Hav, a novel about a fictional city by expert travel writer Jan Morris.Morris clearly did not set out to deceive people, however. Hav is about the impossibility of knowing a place from a short visit, or even a months-long visit, as a travel writer might.
Indeed, it's really about the formation of history, and how it influences us today. A tale about tales!
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Just finished the excellent Hav, a novel about a fictional city by expert travel writer Jan Morris.When the first part was published in 1985, some supposedly thought Hav was a real place; the Daily Mail and Time Out covered it as non-fiction.
I always find these claims a little exaggerated but Morris *was* a well-known travel writer and the book is written very much as such, so the "hoax" works.
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Just finished the excellent Hav, a novel about a fictional city by expert travel writer Jan Morris.Just finished the excellent Hav, a novel about a fictional city by expert travel writer Jan Morris.
Ursula Le Guin loved it – she called it "alternate geography" and thought it was better understood as science fiction. The first part, in particular, is an astonishing melange of real and invented world history...
Review: Hav by Jan Morris
Ursula K Le Guin enjoys a return visit to Jan Morris's extraordinary, enigmatic fictional city in Hav.
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
