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Author: | taraswizard [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:42 am ] |
Post subject: | Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
Anyone familiar with Martian Oddysey, a short story from the 1930s. IMO, a terrible story, almost nothing but dialogue. By the end of the story, you just want to tell these characters to "SHUT UP". And it reads like a comic book, not a good short story. Allegdly it is one of the best of early written short stories. taraswizard Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV Chicago area W/T forever, always Plan C - http://planc.bravepages.com/main.html<i></i> |
Author: | danlo60 [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 4:54 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
can't say that I am... ***** Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise. Fravashi saying (from the formularies of Osho the Fool) <i></i> |
Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 6:29 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
I've never heard of that one, but one of these days I would like to track down some of the really old masters and read some of their stuff... ****************************************************** Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell <i></i> |
Author: | taraswizard [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:02 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
Duchesse wrote before me Quote:I've never heard of that one, but one of these days I would like to track down some of the really old masters and read some of their stuff... Well, Duchesse, I'm not sure I would immediately agree. Not that some of the old stuff is not good, some of it's very good. Just, IMO, some of it so pointedly dated. For my community college class we are reading a deal of this stuff. Can not say I am not enjoying it cause I am. Just some of the dated references, for example: MDs making house calls, a delivery boy delivering groceries using a bicycle, and references to ration stamps. I am not sure if the authors thought everyone would always understand these references, or if they thought their stories would just die away and noone would care 50 or 60 years later. IMO, these types of things hurt the writing. Some might be troubled(concerned) by the abscence of women characters or well developed women characters. Or the abscence of well developed characters in general. More to follow...(maybe) added maybe I am being overly critcal. But the best stories (see below) have almost no reference to information that dates things. Twilight and Nightfall. taraswizard Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV Chicago area W/T forever, always Plan C - http://planc.bravepages.com/main.html<i>Edited by: taraswizard at: 3/8/04 6:48 pm </i> |
Author: | Sylvanus [ Mon Mar 08, 2004 9:23 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
Yeah, some of the older stuff really doesn't work for me. On the other hand, some guys like Phillip K. Dick can still make it work. Even though the sentient computer might run off of punched tape reels... ________________ I wanna feel the metamorphosis and cleansing I've endured within my shadow. Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. -Tool, "Forty-Six & Two" <i></i> |
Author: | taraswizard [ Tue Mar 09, 2004 1:43 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
For Danlo's and everyones information. The anthology for my community college class might be what you had in mind. It is The science fiction hall of fame; volume one 1929 - 1964 editor Robert Silverberg. Selections for the anthology were made based on a poll of SFWA www.sfwa.org members. Table of contents: A martian odyssey by Stanely Weinbaum 1934 Twilight by John Campbell 1934 Helen O'Loy by Lester del Rey 1938 The roads must roll by Robert Heinlein 1940 Microcosmic god by Theodore Sturgeon 1941 Nightfall by Issac Asimov 1941 The weapon shop by A.E. van Vogt 1942 Mimsy were the borogoves by Lewis Padgett 1943 Huddling Place by Clifford Simak 1944 Arena by Frederic Brown 1944 First contact by Murray Leinster 1945 That only a mother by Judith Merril 1948 Scanners live in vain by Cordwainer Smith 1948 Mars is Heaven by Ray Bradbury 1948 The little black bag by C.M. Kornbluth 1950 Born of man and woman by Richard Matheson 1950 Coming attraction by Fritz Leiber 1950 The quest for Saint Aquin by Anthony Boucher 1951 Surface tension by James Blish 1952 The nine billion names of god by Arthur Clarke 1953 It's a good life by Jerome Bixby 1953 The cold equations by Tom Godwin 1954 Fondly Fahrenheit by Alfred Bester 1954 The country of the kind by Damon Knight 1955 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 1959 A rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazney 1963 taraswizard Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV Chicago area W/T forever, always Plan C - http://planc.bravepages.com/main.html<i></i> |
Author: | AlphSeeker [ Sun Mar 21, 2004 10:11 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
I actually kind of like reading the really old stuff - the anacrhonisms make for extra weirdness or something. But then, I'm a mid-century design buff, so I have fun imagining all the cool "streamline modern" architecture and fins and flanges on everything. Plus, the idea of astronauts with Errol Flynn pencil mustaches cracks me up. I've got this great anthology, Science Fiction of the 30's (1975) edited by Damon Knight. It has the Stanley G. Weinbaum story "The Mad Moon" in it, so I thought I'd give that a try. It's a surreal, if somewhat silly tale of survival on the Jovian moon Io, whose jungles (uh, okay) are populated by various zany-but-dangerous life-forms. Pulpy, but entertaining with colorful writing. I'd read more Weinbaum if I ran across it. ****************** To seek the sacred river Alph, to walk the caves of ice ...<i></i> |
Author: | taraswizard [ Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:31 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Martian Oddysey by Stanley Weinbaum |
Alph Seeker, I am with about the BEMs, or strange creatures in other garb, in Weinbaum's story!! Martian Oddysey has its own share fo strange creatures. Regardless of the anachronisms in some of the other stories, MO is just so loaded with dialogue. It was tedious to read. Short story as first person narrated expository dialogue, what my beginning fiction instructor might have to say about this!? taraswizard Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV Chicago area W/T forever, always Plan C - http://planc.bravepages.com/main.html<i>Edited by: taraswizard at: 3/21/04 1:34 pm </i> |
Author: | DRAGONEMISIS [ Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:45 am ] |
Post subject: | SF Hall of Fame...Vol 1 |
I actually have a copy of this, though mine only has the first eleven stories on TW's list. I'm very tempted to do a big time re-read, but where do you find the time with so much else to get through? Adios Rockin' & in The Land of Oz <i></i> |
Author: | taraswizard [ Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:55 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: SF Hall of Fame...Vol 1 review at Strange Horizons |
The book in question SF Hall of Fame, volume 1. There is a review at the Strange Horizons website www.strangehorizons.com. Link to the review www.strangehorizons.com/2...rows.shtml I do not think I agree with all this reviewers opinions. But YMMV. taraswizard Allan Rosewarne N9SQT/WDX6HQV Chicago area W/T forever, always Plan C - http://planc.bravepages.com/main.html<i></i> |
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