On a related note

[james_davis_nicoll]

What should go on a Top Ten "In retrospect, what the hell were we thinking" list of once-popular SF?

Comments

[fitzcamel.livejournal.com]

Lucifer's Hammer?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Was there something exceptionally wrong with it that I don't remember since I read it half my life ago?

[montoya.livejournal.com]

It was 100% over the top ridiculous. It's what Bruckheimer would have written if he were a novelist.

But I like it anyway.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sounds good to me. But, then, I like a lot of the mid-period Tom Clancy, too.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Wandering hordes of negro cannibals?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

They were specifically black?

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

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

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.

[fitzcamel.livejournal.com]

Its handling of gender and race hasn't worn too well, as I recall.