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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2009-03-15 12:52 pm
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On a related note

What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?
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[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember being rather surprised on rereading Space Viking that the casual acts of mass [1] murder carried out by the protagonist never really registered as somewhat morally iff when I read the book as a teenager.

1: On a scale perhaps an order of magnitude higher than anyone on Earth has managed.
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