tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post4954275805672362578..comments2024-03-23T14:48:31.480-07:00Comments on Strange at Ecbatan: An Old Ace Double: The Ultimate Weapon/The Planeteers, by John W. CampbellRich Hortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-31420533172430643812018-11-23T08:11:55.738-08:002018-11-23T08:11:55.738-08:00Great! It sounds good. Thanks for sharing.. PAKIST...Great! It sounds good. Thanks for sharing.. <a href="http://pakistaniroyalescorts.com" rel="nofollow">PAKISTANI ESCORTS</a><br />PUBG Loverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00974197661518828716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-39475591626489199692017-07-06T04:45:44.048-07:002017-07-06T04:45:44.048-07:00I think that's probably a fair comment -- the ...I think that's probably a fair comment -- the stories still didn't really work for me, but that's closer to what Campbell was trying to get at than any sort of technical inventions, sure.Rich Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-88139269070025796602017-07-06T04:33:19.482-07:002017-07-06T04:33:19.482-07:00I read somewhere (I don't remember where) that...I read somewhere (I don't remember where) that the Penton and Blake stories were not meant to be about technology, but communication with alien minds. He liked Stanley G. Weinbaum's story A Martian Odyssey because Tweel felt so different from humanity. He told his writers; "Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man."<br /> <br />The adventures of Penton and Blake sounds like his own attempts in that regard.Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972219789961366511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-43049154787940606672017-01-20T10:04:06.927-08:002017-01-20T10:04:06.927-08:00I read "Second Ending" on its original p...I read "Second Ending" on its original publication in, I believe, "Amazing" around 1960, smack dab in the middle of my Golden Age, and remember it as one of the best things I read during that time.Carl Gloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16620165790019990936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-64061581153318291262016-06-10T06:24:49.583-07:002016-06-10T06:24:49.583-07:00That's an excellent suggestion ... I read the ...That's an excellent suggestion ... I read the Delany probably 40 years ago in a later Ace reprint, but I haven't read the White, though I hear good things about it.Rich Hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07659613066689174738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-24325690238561852742016-06-09T21:31:34.648-07:002016-06-09T21:31:34.648-07:00I've got one to recommend, Rich, if you haven&...I've got one to recommend, Rich, if you haven't already read it: F-173: "Second Ending," by James White, b/w "The Jewels of Aptor," by Samuel Delany. Read the Delany ages ago, but hadn't looked at White's short novel (96 pages). Apparently it had been short-listed for a Hugo. VERY different sort of post-apocalyptic, last-man-on-earth tale. smitty59https://www.blogger.com/profile/05846962108898707786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-55368794398789097032016-06-04T23:15:04.934-07:002016-06-04T23:15:04.934-07:00I think you need to consider slanting for his mark...I think you need to consider slanting for his markets, as well...Budrys like to note that he was second only to "Doc" Smith in popularity for "super-science" fiction...but Smith is largely unreadable to me. Campbell in that mode a little better. And, of course, as I note in my piece this week, Campbell's fascination with 'fringe" and pseudoscience was essentially lifelong, and part of what got him excited about being able to launch UKNOWN...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-60456247450649177532016-06-03T11:22:23.992-07:002016-06-03T11:22:23.992-07:00Rich, I'll admit I enjoy some of this stuff, b...Rich, I'll admit I enjoy some of this stuff, but Campbell wasn't, as you point out, at his best as a writer.<br /><br />George, is that a copy of the NESFA collection?Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-40707468192132778402016-06-03T05:25:15.479-07:002016-06-03T05:25:15.479-07:00I just picked up a copy of THE BEST OF JOHN W. CAM...I just picked up a copy of THE BEST OF JOHN W. CAMPBELL at a Book Sale. Can't wait to read it!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-257559067333970126.post-36794577501929784612016-06-03T00:21:35.270-07:002016-06-03T00:21:35.270-07:00Thanks for the review, Rich: sounds like one to mi...Thanks for the review, Rich: sounds like one to miss, even if you are vaguely interested in the fiction of this period.Paul Fraserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09444214926799419260noreply@blogger.com