The Rose

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  • Composer
  • and
  • dancer
  • Anna
  • van
  • Tuyl
  • is
  • working
  • on
  • her
  • masterpiece,
  • a
  • work
  • she
  • has
  • titled
  • "The
  • Rose".
  • Her
  • progress
  • is
  • stymied,
  • however,
  • when
  • her
  • body
  • begins
  • suddenly
  • to
  • change.
  • For
  • no
  • knowable
  • reason,
  • she
  • begins
  • to
  • grow
  • strange
  • protuberances,
  • her
  • body
  • warping
  • more
  • day
  • by
  • day.
  • Desperate
  • to
  • complete
  • her
  • symphony
  • before
  • her
  • life
  • becomes
  • subsumed
  • by
  • these
  • growths,
  • she
  • encounters
  • a
  • painter
  • suffering
  • from
  • the
  • same
  • affliction. Ruy
  • Jacques
  • is
  • an
  • artist,
  • famed
  • for
  • his
  • works
  • and
  • full
  • of
  • inspiration
  • despite
  • his
  • condition.
  • His
  • wife
  • is
  • a
  • scientist,
  • a
  • woman
  • of
  • logic,
  • working
  • to
  • build
  • the
  • perfect
  • weapon.
  • While
  • Anna
  • at
  • first
  • believes
  • she
  • has
  • found
  • a
  • saviour
  • and
  • kindred
  • spirit
  • in
  • Ruy,
  • she
  • instead
  • finds
  • herself
  • in
  • the
  • middle
  • of
  • a
  • tense
  • battle
  • between
  • art
  • and
  • science,
  • with
  • building
  • jealousy
  • and
  • resentment. Is
  • the
  • true
  • goal
  • the
  • completion
  • of
  • her
  • work,
  • or
  • the
  • possibility
  • of
  • a
  • cure?
  • Is
  • it
  • better
  • to
  • seek
  • immortality
  • through
  • their
  • art,
  • or
  • a
  • full
  • life
  • through
  • science?Award-winning
  • author
  • Charles
  • Harness'
  • lost
  • classic
  • was
  • rediscovered
  • by
  • Michael
  • Moorcock
  • more
  • than
  • a
  • decade
  • after
  • it
  • was
  • first
  • published,
  • and
  • champsioned
  • by
  • him
  • to
  • great
  • acclaim.
  • IT
  • was
  • awarded
  • the
  • Retro-Hugo
  • award
  • in 2004.
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