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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

Kij Johnson

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
Suffice to say that this one threads the needle of being at once respectful of the source work, arguing with it on fair terms, and being enjoyable as fiction in its own right. (I'd really like to know what happens after the ending, in both the dreamlands and the waking world, but it's better writing to cut off where Johnson does.)

on bactra.org · 31 Aug 2016

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.