03-14-2024, 08:00 PM | #31756 |
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Spoiler alert! [For E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Lensmen series]
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03-16-2024, 05:34 AM | #31757 | |
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Next I read To Crush the Moon the fourth (& last) in Wil McCarthy's Queendom of Sol series. And the reason for the framing of the previous two books becomes apparent. It sort of works. I still think it would have been better not done that way, but perhaps that's just me. An OK ending. And then there was The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L Sayers. Which I enjoyed, although I couldn't following the bell-ringing jargon. And One Virgin Too Many by Lindsay Davis, the 11th in her Falco series, which I had not read before. Excellent. And now I'm reading the March freebie from the University of Chicago: The Tiger in the Attic by Edith Milton. A memoir of a Jewish refugee in England. |
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Thank you. Your findings about Smith's serialized novels are generally the same that I have experienced in serialized novels published in popular SF magazines (especially 'IF Science Fiction' and 'Galaxy Magazine of Science Fiction', and even short story collections of the 1940s and 1950s, such as A.E. Van Vogt's Null series and in Clifford D. Simak ('City'), and in Zenna Henderson's work). In fact, this seemed to be the norm back then, perhaps due to an attempt to legitimize the field as authors attempted to dig SF out of its perceived 'ghetto market' persona; and, in addition, as publishers (perhaps due to Ray Bradbury's growing influence in the early 50s, and then later with Harlan Ellison's landmark 'Dangerous Visions' anthology in 1967.) I'm also thinking of Robert Silverberg as he abandoned the pulpish SF of his early period. The same can be said of Michael Moorcok's mature work, as well, I believe. Of course, all of this is an over-simplification of why serialized novels were later fleshed out to a different level of emancipation as authors embraced a more mature, universal, and personal vision of their work. And don't forget money! Last edited by Dr. Drib; 03-16-2024 at 10:21 AM. |
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03-16-2024, 10:43 AM | #31759 |
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I've been meaning to read Lensmen because it was the inspiration for DC's Green Lantern Corps. I do have the anime of Lensmen but I haven't watched since shortly after getting the laserdisc about 20+ years ago.
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Dr. Drib, I have downloaded off of Internet Archive the Astoundings that contain Heinlein's Methuselah's Children I hope to get to it in a month or two (this is the busy time of year for me), and will give a review of the differences. |
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03-16-2024, 11:12 PM | #31763 |
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I just picked up the first volume of Spy x Family. It's about a spy who, as part of a mission, must acquire a wife and child...and he does so. What he doesn't know is that his "wife" is a extremely deadly assassin, and his "child" is a telepath.
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Dangerous Visions - March 26, 2024 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/dangerous-visions-6 Again, Dangerous Visions - June 4, 2024 https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/aga...rous-visions-4 |
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Just finished Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole, my second book of his, very talented writer.
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