Mindwebs: The Tank and Its Wife
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james_davis_nicollThe Tank and Its Wife
Arsen Darnay! In the 1970s he was seen in Baen's Galaxy and Worlds of If and less frequently places like Bova's Analog. Between September 1974 and August 1981 he had four novels, one collection and 14 short stories. A lot of his stories were set in a world where Western civilization blew itself apart in a series of nuclear wars. One remnant survived (on the coast) threatened by the rival culture that grew in the radioactive wildness.
In retrospect Darnay, with his stories dependent on nuclear power and nuclear waste being so dangerous inhumane schemes stretching past the end of the US itself, seems like a very odd match for Jim Baen but as far as I can tell Darnay's 1970s career was closely linked to Baen, at If, Galaxy and later at Ace.
Then in 1981 a long silence. This was eventually broken in the 21st century with a number of novels I have not read.
(The reason I am gleeful is that when after decades I find out where an author vanished to, it is usually thanks to encountering their obituary)
This tale of a cyborg tank and the woman he loves may fit into that future history; the references to an African war is not incompatible with the giddy frolic the Military-Industrial complex leads the US through in the lead-up to the Limited Nuclear Wars.
I wonder why the tanks were not outfitted with speakers?
Arsen Darnay! In the 1970s he was seen in Baen's Galaxy and Worlds of If and less frequently places like Bova's Analog. Between September 1974 and August 1981 he had four novels, one collection and 14 short stories. A lot of his stories were set in a world where Western civilization blew itself apart in a series of nuclear wars. One remnant survived (on the coast) threatened by the rival culture that grew in the radioactive wildness.
In retrospect Darnay, with his stories dependent on nuclear power and nuclear waste being so dangerous inhumane schemes stretching past the end of the US itself, seems like a very odd match for Jim Baen but as far as I can tell Darnay's 1970s career was closely linked to Baen, at If, Galaxy and later at Ace.
Then in 1981 a long silence. This was eventually broken in the 21st century with a number of novels I have not read.
(The reason I am gleeful is that when after decades I find out where an author vanished to, it is usually thanks to encountering their obituary)
This tale of a cyborg tank and the woman he loves may fit into that future history; the references to an African war is not incompatible with the giddy frolic the Military-Industrial complex leads the US through in the lead-up to the Limited Nuclear Wars.
I wonder why the tanks were not outfitted with speakers?
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Date: 2012-09-08 04:14 am (UTC)[1] Nothing wrong with the medium! I wish I could, but I inevitably space out during the narration.
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Date: 2012-09-08 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-09 12:23 am (UTC)Maybe for the same or similar reason that the golems in Pratchett's "Feet of Clay" were not given mouths?
[I am unfamiliar with the story in the OP, and am basically being cynical]
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Date: 2012-09-09 01:36 am (UTC)