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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] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Was there something exceptionally wrong with it that I don't remember since I read it half my life ago?

[identity profile] montoya.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
It was 100% over the top ridiculous. It's what Bruckheimer would have written if he were a novelist.

But I like it anyway.

[identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, sounds good to me. But, then, I like a lot of the mid-period Tom Clancy, too.

[identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Wandering hordes of negro cannibals?

[identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
They were specifically black?

But yeah, okay, I didn't remember those.

[identity profile] carloshasanax.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Their initiation rites were loosely based on British reports about the Mau-Mau oath. [1] But worse.

Call it a hunch, but I'm gonna guess that was Pournelle.

[1] Which may not have been what actually occurred in a Mau-Mau oath.

[identity profile] fitzcamel.livejournal.com 2009-03-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Its handling of gender and race hasn't worn too well, as I recall.
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