Re: (Worst) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

On 10/22/24 06:16, James Nicoll wrote:

Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
 Before Simmons scare-mongered about Eurabia (and maybe Nunavut, too),
he wrote a World Fantasy Award-winner denouncing non-assimilated
Indians' scary religions. What could go wrong? Aside from the call
for mass murder, I mean?
 https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/something-evil

I am hardly a serious worshipper of Kali but Simmons rubbed
me wrong with that story. If he has written in in Pre-WW II days
he might have gotten away with his Euro-Prejudice. Kali is merely
a personification of Time much like Chronos in Euro-myth. The
robbers called Thugs usered her as an excuse for their murderous
banditry.
According to all the signs we are living in the Kali-Yuga
when all the work of man will be depreciated and the natural
world from which we emerged will resume dominance.
bliss - what the dickens are you talking about?
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