Comments on: Chronesthesia http://elephantwords.co.uk/2010/01/26/chronesthesia/ One Image, Six Writers, Daily Words. The site about Interpretation, Inspiration and Improvisation. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://elephantwords.co.uk/2010/01/26/chronesthesia/#comment-23530 Nicolas Papaconstantinou Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:20:39 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=3482#comment-23530 Pripyat is just a reference point, right? This is fascinating - I wonder if it's an easy story for a comic fan to parse, but the notion of an alternate world where the difference is a lack of any actual people is a great twist. (Of course, there's that empty-city trope beloved of zombie fiction, but this place feels much more deliberate, for some reason...) Pripyat is just a reference point, right? This is fascinating – I wonder if it’s an easy story for a comic fan to parse, but the notion of an alternate world where the difference is a lack of any actual people is a great twist.

(Of course, there’s that empty-city trope beloved of zombie fiction, but this place feels much more deliberate, for some reason…)

]]> By: Rivka Jacobs http://elephantwords.co.uk/2010/01/26/chronesthesia/#comment-22260 Rivka Jacobs Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:12:24 +0000 http://elephantwords.co.uk/?p=3482#comment-22260 Another brilliant scifi story. Pripyat? It gives me goosebumps. The place that was abandoned after Chernobyl, that we use to measure how human civilization decays? What happened? Did some "reset" of the space-time continuum occur at that point of space and time? You present a puzzle, and a lot of possible ways to solve the puzzle. Most fascinating to me is that your "religious" answer is actually plausible -- in a disheartening and cynical kind of way -- i.e., God was hedging his beats all along. I'm really amazed at the consistent high quality of your stories, and how you manage to pack so much into such a brief piece of prose. Another brilliant scifi story. Pripyat? It gives me goosebumps. The place that was abandoned after Chernobyl, that we use to measure how human civilization decays? What happened? Did some “reset” of the space-time continuum occur at that point of space and time? You present a puzzle, and a lot of possible ways to solve the puzzle. Most fascinating to me is that your “religious” answer is actually plausible — in a disheartening and cynical kind of way — i.e., God was hedging his beats all along.

I’m really amazed at the consistent high quality of your stories, and how you manage to pack so much into such a brief piece of prose.

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