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I love Abigail Nussbaum but some days I fear she’s the Mikey of f/sf. (Other days I hope so.)
Myrlin A. Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Not my usual thing, but sold as “Shakespeare turned topsy-turvy,” specifically Hamlet, and I’m a sucker for all things Hamlet. Horatio is a failed academic in Wittenburg; Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, a beauty and wit who hasn’t done much with his life; there are echoes of various other elements of Shakespeare’s play as well as several others. Horatio writes Shakespeare’s sonnets, to Hamlet and to his other lover/patron. It’s sort of a famous phrases/images mashup, like a fever dream you’d have after shotgunning one play after another. I don’t know whether I liked it or just found it familiar.
Myrlin A. Hermes, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: Not my usual thing, but sold as “Shakespeare turned topsy-turvy,” specifically Hamlet, and I’m a sucker for all things Hamlet. Horatio is a failed academic in Wittenburg; Hamlet is the prince of Denmark, a beauty and wit who hasn’t done much with his life; there are echoes of various other elements of Shakespeare’s play as well as several others. Horatio writes Shakespeare’s sonnets, to Hamlet and to his other lover/patron. It’s sort of a famous phrases/images mashup, like a fever dream you’d have after shotgunning one play after another. I don’t know whether I liked it or just found it familiar.
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