tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post6219319147568360828..comments2023-05-22T10:42:54.046-04:00Comments on 6th or 7th: Lying at the coreEthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-8395024441021848822011-09-07T14:59:50.814-04:002011-09-07T14:59:50.814-04:00Thanks!
(I love, by the way, that blogger still h...Thanks!<br /><br />(I love, by the way, that blogger still has yet to catch a single actual case of spam for me, but it caught your comment.)Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-82605981587187909052011-09-07T14:21:33.274-04:002011-09-07T14:21:33.274-04:00Panshin's Heinlein work is available online he...Panshin's Heinlein work is available online here: http://www.enter.net/~torve/critics/Dimension/hdcontents.html if anyone wants to check it out.Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-86392646387466278242011-08-31T14:26:35.855-04:002011-08-31T14:26:35.855-04:00ah bartleby...ah lit crit!
"tartarus of maid...ah bartleby...ah lit crit!<br /><br />"tartarus of maids" anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-40131371559333208602011-08-31T12:23:45.693-04:002011-08-31T12:23:45.693-04:00Yeah, worth it if you can't stand. Panshin was...Yeah, worth it if you can't stand. Panshin was a big fan as an impressionable kid (as was I in junior high times), was freaked out when Starship Troopers dropped, saw his idol's clay feet and bloody pen or whatever and excoriated him, to Heinlein's hilariously disproportionate and eternally risible hissy-fitting. Something like that - he acknowledges the breakthroughs H made (I still dig the early shorts) but cuts no slack where none should be cut. Classic early SF crit wherever you stand on H. The Blish book sounds rad, never heard of that!Nathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-35550564862283849682011-08-31T00:15:36.279-04:002011-08-31T00:15:36.279-04:00First-printing copies of new, female protagonist, ...First-printing copies of new, female protagonist, excellent sci-fi available, dirt cheap. Drop an e-mail.High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-58145651415170288232011-08-30T13:24:36.655-04:002011-08-30T13:24:36.655-04:00Richard--after all this anticipation-building, I&#...Richard--after all this anticipation-building, I'll be so embarrassed if you don't like it...<br /><br />I was going to reply to what you say about Bartleby, but I think I have a post in the works that's gonna cover that, so I'll wait.<br /><br />Nathan--Thanks for calling it good work! And haha, yeah, I have been flogging myself a little. I almost titled this post "SF criticism bites," or something along those lines. But I'm hopefully heading somewhere with all this, so in a way I have to take the bad with the good.<br /><br />Your suggestions are noted, with gratitude--I hadn't heard of <i>The World Beyond the Hill</i>, which looks intriguing; I've added it to my read-soon list. I've seen some praise for Panshin's work on Heinlein, but...well, I kind of can't stand Heinlein, blasphemous as that is to say. Do you think it would be worth reading anyway? If I come across a book with a scribbled tornado, I'll snap it up. And I'm unfamiliar with Athena Andreadis; from a quick scan of her blog it looks interesting, and I've added it to my blug-feed.<br /><br />And I do have some other probably-good stuff coming up--on my from-the-library shelf now I have Samuel R. Delany's <i>The Jewel-Hinged Jaw</i>, which judging from the bits of it Russ has quoted in her various essays promises to be amazing. And Blish's <i>The Issue at Hand</i> and Knight's <i>In Search of Wonder</i> are coming soon, to fill in some of the classics--I anticipate having lots of problems with both, but most likely far more useful problems than I have with chumps like Adam J. Frisch and M. Keith Booker.Ethanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07498712279382078624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-21848695179931474472011-08-30T11:53:01.861-04:002011-08-30T11:53:01.861-04:00Aside from Russ, you seem to be flogging yourself ...Aside from Russ, you seem to be flogging yourself a good deal with lousy SF criticism. You ever checked out the Panshins' <i>The World Beyond the Hill</i> or Alexei Panshin's Heinlein criticism? There's also this one I read years ago with a dark blue cover and what looks like a black scribbled tornado that was published around '75 that I dug. And Athena Andreadis' blog.<br />http://www.starshipnivan.com/blog/<br />Keep up the good work.Nathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8981856246989013843.post-32189793367077505932011-08-30T09:24:09.798-04:002011-08-30T09:24:09.798-04:00Damn, what in the hell is taking Interlibrary Loan...Damn, what in the hell is taking Interlibrary Loan so long with <i>We Who Are About To</i>?? I need to read this book!<br /><br />Regarding "Bartleby", I love her remarks. I remember reading that story, and wanting to write about it, but always in connection with my own sense of my own working life being deadening, and pointless. Then I read some literary interpretations of it, and though some of them were interesting and seemed relevant, all too often I couldn't relate. They had nothing to do with the story I'd read!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08014014605639738887noreply@blogger.com