Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein

[james_davis_nicoll]

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Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein

Comments

[philrm.livejournal.com]

I'm scratching my head over the notion that someone would name a spaceship after Nixon.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The authors though it was funny.

As I recall, Agnew was something of a space cadet but he has not had anything named after him in skiffy since an old Benford novel.

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

Since it's in the future, Nixon's scandals will have faded into background trivia, but we still don't name stuff after Harding even though no one deeply cares about his misdeeds anymore.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

In the long run, I suspect the infamy of being one of the founding fathers of the post-New Deal Concensus Republican Party will long outlive any fuss about Watergate and secret tapes.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

He opened relationships with China! He got us out of Vietnam! Truly, the first post-colonial President.

[ilya187.livejournal.com]

In the afterword, Sandford and Ctein explain why they did it:

Precisely to evoke your reaction.

In other words, it was subtle trolling on the authors' part.

[philrm.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it really counts as trolling when my reaction to this revelation can be summed up as "Meh."