Uz Bard

From: Scott Haney <n0gud_at_arrl.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:55:15 -0600


> From: Peter Larsen <plarsen_at_mail.utexas.edu>
> Subject: Literacy, mostly
>

> Also, for a look at a somewhat trollish society, Eleanor
> Arnason's "Ring
> of Swords" is a science fiction novel with a society segregated by gender
> where the males and females give very different accounts of why this
> segregation is a good thing and what it means. There's also a very funny
> sequence about translating MacBeth into this alien culture (Personally, I
> want to see an Uz "Romeo and Juliet.")
>

Standard troll ending: our ill-fated lovers (o! the machinations of Aranea) die, everyone stares for a moment, then someone says, "Lunch!" and the two are seen no more.

Baron von Moosehsunchen


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