Hub and I were talking about Kay yesterday. He'd just finished The Lions of al-Rassan.
I came back here hunting for a half-remembered snippet of Kay review. What I was trying to remember didn't happen to be here, but this bit struck me: "the edged difficulty of choosing to be doing – choosing to be sacrificing – when you already have to be." I'd seen Cabin in the Woods since you reviewed The Wandering Fire, and that phrase made me remember a scene near the end, where Sigourney Weaver tells the two remaining sacrifices, "You can die with the world, or for it."
In CitW, the two young victims choose NOT to die for the world, even though they're going to die anyway. And putting those two things together, CitW and Kay, I can see the value of stories like CitW. Because the Yes response is only meaningful when No was a real possibility. So there need to be stories where No happens.
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I came back here hunting for a half-remembered snippet of Kay review. What I was trying to remember didn't happen to be here, but this bit struck me: "the edged difficulty of choosing to be doing – choosing to be sacrificing – when you already have to be." I'd seen Cabin in the Woods since you reviewed The Wandering Fire, and that phrase made me remember a scene near the end, where Sigourney Weaver tells the two remaining sacrifices, "You can die with the world, or for it."
In CitW, the two young victims choose NOT to die for the world, even though they're going to die anyway. And putting those two things together, CitW and Kay, I can see the value of stories like CitW. Because the Yes response is only meaningful when No was a real possibility. So there need to be stories where No happens.