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Mind Web, some episodes
Jul. 25th, 2012 09:27 amA Walk in the Dark
This is exactly what it says on the tin: roughly half an hour of one fellow's stroll through pitch black night while musing on some unverified rumours he has heard. As I recall, the original short story ends on what I think of as a Clarkeian ellipsis, one the narrator does his best to replicate.
In the Imagicon
Two problems with this: both of the worlds shown are pretty unimaginative and given there are only two ways the "which of these worlds is real" question can break and one choice is more interesting or at least less boring than the other, it's pretty clear what's going on here.
(Oh, gross sexism as well but this is from 1966 so it would be pretty amazing if it wasn't sexist)
Made the Nebula first ballot. Those wacky SFWAers....
There is a second story included, Zelazny's "Corrida", a straigh-forward story about a human who finds himself gaining a intimate understanding on a particular sport. Minor.
Allegory
This is my surprised face that this tedious story about Stupid Science Being shown up as Stupid (with added Bureaucrats Are Obligate Obstructionist Idiots) came from Astounding.
The author, William T. Powers, was not prolific: a handful of short stories in the 1950s and then a brief return around 1970.
Moth Race
Man, they loved their stories of blood sports in a regimented world back then. Ellison liked it enough to include it in his Again, Dangerous Visions.
I see there is a long, long gap in author Hill's career after this. His next story would not be published until 2011....
This is exactly what it says on the tin: roughly half an hour of one fellow's stroll through pitch black night while musing on some unverified rumours he has heard. As I recall, the original short story ends on what I think of as a Clarkeian ellipsis, one the narrator does his best to replicate.
In the Imagicon
Two problems with this: both of the worlds shown are pretty unimaginative and given there are only two ways the "which of these worlds is real" question can break and one choice is more interesting or at least less boring than the other, it's pretty clear what's going on here.
(Oh, gross sexism as well but this is from 1966 so it would be pretty amazing if it wasn't sexist)
Made the Nebula first ballot. Those wacky SFWAers....
There is a second story included, Zelazny's "Corrida", a straigh-forward story about a human who finds himself gaining a intimate understanding on a particular sport. Minor.
Allegory
This is my surprised face that this tedious story about Stupid Science Being shown up as Stupid (with added Bureaucrats Are Obligate Obstructionist Idiots) came from Astounding.
The author, William T. Powers, was not prolific: a handful of short stories in the 1950s and then a brief return around 1970.
Moth Race
Man, they loved their stories of blood sports in a regimented world back then. Ellison liked it enough to include it in his Again, Dangerous Visions.
I see there is a long, long gap in author Hill's career after this. His next story would not be published until 2011....
