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House Louse posted:2. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians won the Philip K. Dick Award, which is nearly as bizarre as Gravity's Rainbow losing the Nebula to Rendezvous with Rama. This actually makes a little bit of sense. The setting of Waiting for Barbarians is a made-up world that is supposed to stand in for any frontier town ever. Everything has a generic name - the main character is just the Magistrate. There's the Town, the Barbarians, the Empire, etc. Yet despite it just being a giant allegory, the world feels weirdly real and present. So it's actually a triumph of secondary world building. It's also just an awesome book in general.
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