Re: Last Dangerous Visions has dropped.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 15:56:06 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

In article <abtfgj1b3d6tv2snov9qifk79clm2mt575@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

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Cryptoengineer wrote:

Published yesterday. I've downloaded it to my Kindle (now there's a
line that would have been thoroughly SF when the first anthology
was published), but have not read it yet.
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James, will you be reviewing this?

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I found the original to be ... what a sane person would expect:
nothing really daring, just people who thought they were.

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DV is up for review by the end of November. Don't think I've read it
since Joe Clark was PM. Pretty sure my memories of DV are mixed up
with A,DV.

Don't forget to notice the obligatory anti-religion story.

Which, since it was expected, and quite ordinary, cannot have been
daring.

The same could be said of the obligatory stories with sex in them.
What can one say to such things, except "Ah, Salieri!" while yawning.

This could simply be a matter of timing: that is, at least some of the
stories could have been daring but, by the time it was published, had
become, if not common, at least not rare.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"