I'll have to go back and re-read "Pony" to see if I can find any connections (no chore there, it's one of my favorite in the Sirenia catalog), which is part of what is tickling my brain.
The part that's really getting me is the metaplay between Caitlin R. Kiernan's presence as an author in this, our concurrent reality, and the projection of her work upon Ms. Crowe in the other reality. That, and how readers unfamiliar with CRK's work would (or are intended to) interpret discovery of these "fictional fictions" as actually being published works which predate their fictional author by nearly two years.
Then again, there is the video footage. This is film shot, presumably, by Ms. Kiernan and Ms. Pollnac, and yet is the viewer supposed to presume it was gathered by the characters of the novel?
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Date: 2009-08-19 03:47 pm (UTC)The part that's really getting me is the metaplay between Caitlin R. Kiernan's presence as an author in this, our concurrent reality, and the projection of her work upon Ms. Crowe in the other reality. That, and how readers unfamiliar with CRK's work would (or are intended to) interpret discovery of these "fictional fictions" as actually being published works which predate their fictional author by nearly two years.
Then again, there is the video footage. This is film shot, presumably, by Ms. Kiernan and Ms. Pollnac, and yet is the viewer supposed to presume it was gathered by the characters of the novel?
Maybe I'm overthinking this.