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Originally Posted by fjtorres
A fair decision.
He took advantage of the looser editorial climate but he went in a very different direction than the New Wave authors. Different concerns and interests from them. For him the new rules were more a license to tackle taboo subjects such as religion and race with a contrarian approach more than a rebellion against the status quo. He had no interest in going into Ellison/Moorcock territory, he was just happy to lose the old handcuffs. Of course, the lack of fetters led eventually to NUMBER OF THE BEAST but you gotta take the bad with the good. (GLORY ROAD, for one.)
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fjtorres, I know this is an off topic side bar, but if you want to read a better take on the last 90 pages (or so) of
Glory Road, I strongly suggest Cordwainer Smith's story,
On The Sand Planet. Same conceptual musings, but in an elegant story...