Projects: A round up

[faustus]

So... can anyone think of lame, amputee, leg-less, club-footed or missing toed characters, ideally hero(in)es in modern fantasy fiction? Film doesn't count. Mind goes ... blank.



Let's see, these are the things I need to write this Summer:

Banks chapter (I made a start but next items means I have to rethink)

0 / 2,000 (0.0%)

Banks chapter (guessing on wordcount)

5,000 / 7,000 (71.4%)

Baudrillard chapter (I have hand written notes somewhere)

400 / 2,000 (20.0%)

Fantasy and Psychoanalyis chapter (exists in head)

788 / 4,000 (19.7%)

Queer YASF (powerpoint of talk available)

2,000 / 4,000 (50.0%)

Comments

[editormum.livejournal.com]

Was the main character in Cecilia Dart-Thornton's first series club footed? Am I dreaming that?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

The Bitterbynde Trilogy? I don't know it but appears mute not lame. Thanks anyhow.

[editormum.livejournal.com]

I know you're right. Why did I think there was a club foot too? Hmmm. I have a feeling there has been, but I can't think where, sorry :(

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking of films or sf or I Claudius, all of which are off limits.

I'm sure there's a list somewhere...

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

There's always nine-fingered Frodo...

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

He's on the other part of the list, thanks, with Thomas (clench) Covenant. It's toes and feet and legs I'm blanking on in this case.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

There's always Oedipus, I guess?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

Old "Swollen Foot"? Not modern enough, sorry, and a Freudian reading of Oedipus is one of them tortoise-ology things in a circle. Not startling enough...

I am being picky here.

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

I don't remember any of the many SF/F novels to use Lord Byron as a character in some way actually noting his clubfoot.

A deformed foot is of course crucial in The Chrysalids.

The heroine of Leigh kennedy's non-SF Saint Hiroshima loses some toes in 'some damn fool incident with a fallout shelter'

K

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

There's an article in SFS somewhere which may mention Byron (he was at the back of my mind but is neither fantasy nor (sufficiently) modern). I don't think I ever read Stress.

The Crysalids? Too sf-nal I suspect but maybe.

Saint Hiroshima as sf? (Have I read it? Ponder ponder. Nicholas the Anmerican, yes.

I'm also thinking The Wasp Factory - Angus/Agnes Cauldhamme???

Thanks but I'm being picky here...

[pigeonhed.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that novels about LB might be considered modern even though he isn't. Tom Holland's The Vampyre for instance.

There must be plenty of Fisher King variants out there... Tim Powers' The Drawing Of The Dark maybe?

Oh and Katherine Dunn's Geek Love has several deformed characters which might count.