Talk:Glasshouse (novel)

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The result of the first read. It's a complex novel, and I (for one) will probably add/snip bits after another read. Gardener of Geda | Message Me.... 19:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

is that a legit character list? many of those names are not in the plot summary and the term 'score-whore' is unexplained in the context of the novel. = 68.20.4.74 23:21, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

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Spoilers

I believe some sections should be marked as "Spoilers". "Plot" section pretty much summarizes the novel. Sounds reasonable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.105.31 (talk) 09:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Gender

Beth: "I recently finished reading Glasshouse and loved it. There were points where you seemed to go out of your way to avoid using pronouns- specifically where it dealt with Robin's past and family. This seemed like commentary of a post human genderless future. Was this intentional and did you find it particularly difficult to write and omit pronouns?"

Charles: "Yes, it was intentional. English isn't as pervasively gendered as many other languages, but it's still implicit -- the neuter pronoun, "it" implies sexlessness, rather than indeterminacy. (In computer-speak it's a zero value, not a NULL.)

One of the things I wanted to do in "Glasshouse" (which sort of got obscured by the other stuff) was to probe gender-determinism by taking a population for whom gender was a total irrelevance, and throw them into a gendered society by following the Stanford prison experiment protocol -- randomly allocate people to binary roles, give them some pointers to how each role is expected to behave (the folks in Zimbardo's study didn't need explicit pointers -- the roles were already well-known to them, possibly too well-known), and see what happens. So starting with a set-up not unlike John Varley's Eight Worlds stories was necessary -- one in which your physical sex is a matter of personal expression, and gender is discretionary rather than mandatory."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/interview-1.html#comment-56924 --Gwern (contribs) 19:55 28 August 2010 (GMT)

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