[lbo-talk] I'm so depressed -- Stanislav Lem dead

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 29 13:26:06 PST 2006


What about Asimov?

Did anybody read Mieville's Iron Council? I thought the Trot politics almost wrecked it -- a damn shame after the magnificent first teo New Corbuzon books.


>
> > Wasn't it more or less on the grounds that it
> wasn't good for empire?
> > Maybe I have this confused--they represent some of
> the better-written
> > science fiction in a subgenre that I don't care
> for, and (wrongly
> > perhaps, I grant you) I don't try to follow the
> gossip on him. (I'm
> > still concentrating on when I'll be able to say
> unpopular things about
> > Heinlein.)
>
> It would be interesting to know which side of the
> page Niven and
> Pournelle's name appeared in that set of pages
> published in one of the
> SF magazines during the Vietnam War. One page had
> names of SF authors
> who opposed the war and the other page had names of
> supporters of the
> war. I'm not sure if either signed on to those ads.
> I remember that the
> old guard of SF--those guys who published SF in the
> 40s and 50s--mostly
> supported the war.
>
> Chuck
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