Re: (ReacTor) Five SFF Stories Featuring Extremely Bad Parenting

Correction: embedded link changed to be publically accessible.

James Nicoll wrote:

Five SFF Stories Featuring Extremely Bad Parenting
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Controlling fathers, murderous mothers, and mad scientists abound!
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 https://reactormag.com/five-sff-stories-featuring-extremely-bad-parenting/

Excerpts:

    The poor Creature must not only deal with an alarming
    appearance and a dreadful father, but it has the misfortune
    of having read Goethe’s 1774 Die Leiden des jungen Werthers,
    a ludicrous paean to wretched emotional excess. This was
    arguably the worst book possible [1] (of those available at
    the time [2]) to hand to a distraught, socially isolated
    autodidact.

    ...

    [2] Atlas Shrugged was not available at the time.

Thank you for the DIE LEIDEN DES JUNGEN WERTHERS association. It
furnishes me with another cognitive connection to cogitate on.
    Serious Shelley students owe it to themselves to read (or hear) the
Karbiener FRANKENSTEIN:

    <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35247.Frankenstein>

Mary Shelley wrote the book on incest and named it MATHILDE. The novel
may have struck too close to home given how Shelley's publisher father
successfully suppressed her story, both during his life and afterlife,
until 1959.
    Mary's birth caused her mother to die a few days later. Some
scholars believe Mary's mom was London's first feminist.

In regards to ATLAS SHRUGGED, it's almost time for me to reread, or
rather, rehear it. But first, it must be edited.
    The best thing about eBooks is how you can edit them to fit your
own personality. In my case, all of Ayn's Atheism along with most of
Galt's tautological stemwinder will be deleted. Post-edit ATLAS SHRUGGED
will be converted to an audiobook using this process:

    <http://crcomp.net/epubtomp3/index.php>

Who knows? Perhaps in the future AI trained, tuned to my idiosyncrasies,
will be able to act as editor to automatically perform the requisite
edits?

Danke,

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