Tammy L Witzens
Autor(a) de Mother Fucking Flowers
Obras de Tammy L Witzens
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- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 9
- Popularidade
- #968,587
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 3
I'll admit, I wasn't exactly bowled over at first: the impression was of being machine-gunned (or I suppose, action-painted) by lots and lots of quirky ideas. This is pretty typical, I was thinking, of a new author: just throw enough stuff at the canvas and some of it will stick. The setting is a version of the multiverse, an infinite and ever-branching array of universes - built from spacetime and governed on the grand scale by relativity theory - in which, according to many physicists, we may actually live. Daisy, our heroine, is an expert at travelling this infinity; her profession is bounty hunter and her mission, here in MFF, to go to one of the uncharted universes and assassinate its version of Adolf Hitler.
I did, though, also realise pretty quickly that there's more here than meets the eye: lots of quirky ideas up close, yes, but seen from halfway across the room...squinting a bit...something else. And then I reached the surprise ending.
As with a painting, different readers will probably see different things in this too, or appreciate it in quite different ways; but for what it's worth, here's what I made of it. (What follows is a horrendous spoiler - don't even think of peeping).
...except for this: daisies aren't actually single flowers; each one is a multitude of tiny flowers combined to form a flowerhead we call a daisy; daisies are composite, not one but many...like our multiverse. The idea of the cosmos as a flower is an ancient one - the lotus blossom for example - but seeing our modern physicist's composite cosmos in a composite flower is an idea I've not come across before. The multiverse as a flowerhead opening and blooming continuously; it's a stunning image.
Well, I hope you didn't peep (it's no good at second hand, you have to see this for yourself; a sixteenth-century painter called Archimboldo specialised in this sort of thing, and in the twentieth Salvador Dali explored it too).
As I said, in some respects this is a typical first published work - but by the same token, for a new writer it's also unusually inventive, imaginative, off-the-wall and, like a good painting, it lodged an image in my mind which I've been thinking about ever since.… (mais)