tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post370087355331440048..comments2024-03-16T20:07:28.844-07:00Comments on Strange at Ecbatan: Another Obscure Ace Double: The Green Queen, by Margaret St. Clair/Three Thousand Years, by Thomas Calvert McClaryRich Hortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-66355346996739022562017-12-03T01:40:54.824-08:002017-12-03T01:40:54.824-08:00Hey, spammer.Hey, spammer.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-75181060378726048802017-12-03T01:04:37.248-08:002017-12-03T01:04:37.248-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Lone Facethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15216656285306289563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-75041237256667611172017-12-02T18:50:01.506-08:002017-12-02T18:50:01.506-08:00I think St. Clair's influence might've bee...I think St. Clair's influence might've been stronger than you think...she was a feminist voice writing in fantasy, sf, horror and crime fiction at least in her career, and even her "entertainments" (to borrow Greene's phrase) are imbued with that sensibility and an often haunting effect...not a resonance I get off Norton much, even her adult work. Brackett's work, too, is more diverse than she's often given credit for, and I think she would've been very much more condescended to if she hadn't had her screenwriting career...St. Clair was publishing Oona and Jik stories in the Thrilling Group magazines when Brackett was still the dominant and best writer in PLANET...and both are too often disregarded...ah, well...I will not make any case for her novels, since I still need to read my copies of those I have, but I don't prize novels ahead of short fiction, either, and never have understood why anyone would.<br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-6397736514961795202017-12-01T18:13:27.256-08:002017-12-01T18:13:27.256-08:00I still have to say I rank Brackett and Moore ahea...I still have to say I rank Brackett and Moore ahead of St. Clair, though I haven't read, say, Agent of the Unknown. Norton -- sure -- Norton was not as good a writer but she was much more prolific, and more influential, at least on young readers.Rich Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-56351351383031419212017-12-01T07:39:46.455-08:002017-12-01T07:39:46.455-08:00"Perhaps it was simply that those writers did..."Perhaps it was simply that those writers did just a bit more, and were just a bit better (taken as a whole) than her, but it does seem that she's not quite as well remembered as perhaps she deserves." I agree, still, with the final clause in that sentence, and still strenuously disagree with the rest of the sentence...thinking as I do that St. Clair is on par with Brackett and Moore, and rather better than Norton.<br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com