Re: Adventures in Time and Space

In article <TNifg.31141$fb2.18865@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lal_truckee <lal_truckee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anthony Nance wrote:

AiTaS is a wonderful collection. I was reviewing it in pieces
here in rasfw about a year ago and never got to the fourth piece,
partly due to distractions and partly...well, because it was such
a shock that I bounced so incredibly hard off the Gallagher/Galloway
stories.

Cultural evolution. A drunk isn't funny anymore. For a real culture
shock, watch the Thin Man movies - there a drunken chain-smoker is the
ultra-sophisticated hero (same for the heroine.)

That could well be - I really don't know, and I've thought about
it off and on since I read the two stories.

Anyhow, the two-fold shock was having the reaction occur at all,
followed by the fact that I couldn't get around it when reading
those stories. I mean, I've read a bunch of SF - it's not like
I typically have problems with other times and settings (whether
in cultural context or inside the works themselves).


Simpler times. Probably goes back to the days when if you were too drunk
to cope, your horse knew its way home.

I like reading old stories just for the culture shock. Some of the
racial/ religious/ mannerisms are so alien that mainstream works become SF.

I like reading old stories, too, and I also like Kuttner/Moore a lot.
It was quite a surprise that those two stories left such a bad taste
in my mouth.

Tony
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