Question
Borges’s “Fauna of Mirrors” inspired a novella by this author set in a post-apocalyptic London invaded by a race of beings trapped in reflections. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of The Tain, who also created geographically identical cities Besźel and Ul Qoma. Slake-moths terrorize New Crobuzon in this author’s Perdido Street Station, which pioneered the New Weird movement.
ANSWER: China Miéville (“mee-AY-vill”)
[10m] Billy Harrow discovers that one of these creatures has been stolen from London’s Natural History Museum in a Miéville novel. The narrator of a Tennyson poem says of one of these creatures, “in roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.”
ANSWER: kraken [accept The Kraken or “The Kraken”; accept giant squid or giant octopus]
[10e] Miéville argues that weird fiction’s “obsession with numinosity” is exemplified by this author, who broke from traditional folkloric monsters to create the tentacle in “The Call of Cthulhu.”
ANSWER: H. P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]
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Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
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| Chicago A | Illinois Blue | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |