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Originally Posted by issybird
And yet what does it say about an author who panders to the worst element of the zeitgeist? It may be an honest buck, but not an honorable one.
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What worst elements?
By what standards? Today's?
For many of those folks, the views presented in the stories were the mainstream, *expected*, views of their time. To present views acceptable to today's standards would've been deemed unrealistic by the establishment and the audience.
Expecting otherwise would be the equivalent of expecting Jules Verne to write stories about relativity or quantum mechanics or Isaac Asimov's LUCKY STARR books to feature a rotating Mercury with a day and night cycle.
Again: if you can't accept a book on its own terms and within the constraints of its time period then you probably should move on. And that applies to modern period pieces as well as classics.
If I run into a period piece trying to shoehorn modern values where they would be anachronistic (and it's not a timeshift story)I'm the one turning up my nose and walking away in disgust.
