Because I mentioned the existence of this thing in a tweet to Tanya Huff (whose Valor books are favorites in this household) , and she and another asked for it to be posted somewhere…I dragged it out of obscurity, corrected a couple of typos, wrote up a brief explanation of its origins and…posted it on the Paksworld website.\u00a0\u00a0 Here’s what happened.<\/p>\n
Years and years and years ago, a semi-prozine (I think it was OtherRealms, but my momory is not that clear since I started depending on computers, which then fail…)\u00a0 which is now defunct invited writers to contribute spoof reviews of their own work for an April Fools issue.\u00a0\u00a0 I went the other mile, and wrote a faux-academic, pseudo-Freudian-feminist analysis of an element in the books many people had commented on: all those jacks.<\/p>\n
So if you want to see the workings of the Lunar mind at its looniest,\u00a0 wander over to the Paksworld website and thence to the short-fiction section, where you will find “Jakes, Jacks, and Johns: An Analysis of Elizabeth Moon’s Use of Waste Technology as a Metaphor for Feminist Survivalist Philosophy.”<\/p>\n
I had WAY too much fun writing it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since I no longer have the copy of the magazine (if I ever find the Paksworld notebooks, I may find it with them, come to think of it)\u00a0 I’m not sure what year it was published.\u00a0\u00a0 I think the mag was out of\u00a0 California and went out of print in the middle ’90s, but it could have been a little earlier or later.\u00a0\u00a0 It has to be after 1990, because it references Surrender None<\/em>, and that’s the book’s publication date.<\/p>\n Oh, what the heck.\u00a0 Here’s a direct link (but I still want people to wander over there too, OK?)<\/p>\n