Water Flow On The Valley Floor! |
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Sep 17 2005, 09:23 PM
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Okay, okay. It's only a FLOW of a SEA oF DUNES. -------------------- - blue_scape / Nico -
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Sep 19 2005, 08:54 AM
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Oh, yes, I'd forgotten about Nick. His status as a hero was somewhat ambiguous, though, given that even his employees used to refer to "the clinkered cockles of his greedy heart" -- and meant it. (David Falkayn finally read him the riot act when he got TOO greedy at other people's expense, and forced him to angrily back down.)
As for Anderson vs. Dick, I nearly idolize Anderson, in spite of his occasional stylistic quirks -- because of the way he uses a virtually encyclopedic knowledge of both the natural sciences and history in his stories, which thus remain as fresh as ever even half a century after he wrote them -- but I see no point in spitting on Crazy Phil, who lest we forget, really did try to focus on some genuine, important and extremely disturbing philosophical and religious subjects, even if he never came up with any really convincing answers to his questions. (How many of us do, for God's sake?) The two authors were trying to do entirely different things; it's like comparing apples and rutabagas. (By the way, did you know that Anderson actually turned up as a CHARACTER in one of Dick's stories in 1964?) |
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Sep 19 2005, 05:54 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Sep 19 2005, 09:54 AM) By the way, did you know that Anderson actually turned up as a CHARACTER in one of Dick's stories in 1964? Bruce: The process of authors putting their peers into SF stories (often to their considerable discomfort) is quite common - it's formally called 'Tuckerisation', after Wilson Tucker, who popped everyone and their auntie into his tales. L Sprague de Camp and Elron (He Whose Name Must Not Be Spoke Lest It Cause The Elronistas To Google You (hint)) sorted out each other that way, each murdering not only the other but the other's characters! Oh, and have a look for 'Rocket to the Morgue' by Anthony Boucher, set at a LASFS-alike Convention and featuring practically *all* the Golden Age SF authors in barely disguised forms. The process continues within SF fandom, at least in the UK: I have been eaten by zombies, as well as having my sexual prowess mocked mercilessly, in Deathday by 'Shaun Hutson' (names behind the nom-de-plume hidden to protect the guilty)and was recently also killed (but met my end as a bit of a hero) by King Richard III in one of Freda Warrington's novels. Jim Allan, a Glasgow fan known for obscure reasons as 'The Parrot' was immortailsed by James White in the form of a race of parrotoids in the Sector General stories (the Nallajim). I believe that John Brunner never forgave Michael Moorcock for the 'Miss Brunner' charactor in the Jerry Cornelius cycle! I've been writing, for years, a series of grisly detective novels set in Glasgow (to be finished Real Soon Now, yeah, r-i-i-i-i-ght!) and have had enormous fun terminating with extreme prejudice a whole range of people. Any volunteers to be knocked off will be gratefully received, and will (naturally) be sent a Memorial Certificate, New Horizons style, to honour their selfless sacrifice!. Who's first? Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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