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taosaur · 05-20-2009, 03:03 PM

I loved Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court when I was ten-ish: probably where I got my fetish for time bending and alternate history. A little later I acquired Born into Light by Paul Samuel Jacobs, about the appearance of uncanny feral children around the world, and a slim anthology called Out of This World, which introduced me to Vonnegut, Asimov, LeGuin and Bradbury, as well as classic stories like To Serve Man, Betelgeuse Bridge, and A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy.

I'm pretty sure all of these were scored from RIF.

EDIT: and Fritz Leiber! He had a great story in there, A Bad Day for Sales, about a robot salesman roaming nuclear winter in search of a prospect, like Wall-E without the happy ending.

05-20-2009, 03:03 PM	#41
taosaur intelligent posterior Posts: 1,562 Karma: 21295618 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ohiopolis Device: Kindle Paperwhite 2, Samsung S8, Lenovo Tab 3 Pro	I loved Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court when I was ten-ish: probably where I got my fetish for time bending and alternate history. A little later I acquired Born into Light by Paul Samuel Jacobs, about the appearance of uncanny feral children around the world, and a slim anthology called Out of This World, which introduced me to Vonnegut, Asimov, LeGuin and Bradbury, as well as classic stories like To Serve Man, Betelgeuse Bridge, and A Bowl of Biskies Makes a Growing Boy. I'm pretty sure all of these were scored from RIF. EDIT: and Fritz Leiber! He had a great story in there, A Bad Day for Sales, about a robot salesman roaming nuclear winter in search of a prospect, like Wall-E without the happy ending. Last edited by taosaur; 05-20-2009 at 03:08 PM.