Re: (Shockwave Reader) Honky in the Woodpile (Max Curfew, volume 3) by John Brunner

On 26/03/2024 22.09, Robert Carnegie wrote:

On 26/03/2024 13:27, James Nicoll wrote:

Honky in the Woodpile (Max Curfew, volume 3) by John Brunner
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Jamaican-born spy Max Curfew accepts a task from Madrugadan
President-in-exile Fierro Ponza: find the mole who betrayed
Ponza and undermined the troubled Caribbean island nation's
fledgling democracy.
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https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/every-move-he-makes
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(technically, not SF unless Ruritanias count as SF)

 I think I counted a secondary world
as being SFF even if it may as well
be Earth - Earth gravity, moon,
present-day species of life - but
an imaginary but not extraordinary
country doesn't count.  Am I making
Lilliput be SFF?  I think I am.

I'd certainly count _Gulliver's Travels_ as specfic. People one-twelfth
the size of ordinary humans? People twelve times our size? Flying cities?
Living forever (if you can call it life)? Talking horses?
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Michael F. Stemper
Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be.