Joseph.Ginder@CMU-CS-SPICE.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (09/12/83)
So far, I've only received 2 replies to my query for people's favorite SF of shorter-than-novel length. Com'on now! Surely people on this list have something to say on this subject...
gant@parsec.UUCP (09/20/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-519700:parsec:42100002:000:74 parsec!gant Sep 19 09:10:00 1983 "The Word for World is Forest," by Kate Wilhelm(?) alan gant parsec!gant
leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter) (09/20/83)
I don't know what the original question was, but "The Word for World is Forest" is by Ursula LeGuin, not Kate Wilhelm. It's a novella that has appeared in at least one of her collections and was re-issued as a whole book about a year and a half ago. (To get a reasonable size, they used a LOT of whitespace on the pages, a large font, etc.; typical ripoff.) TWFWIF is part of LeGuin's Hainish series, the best-known (and best) member of which is "The Left Hand of Darkness". TWFWIF is LeGuin at her preachiest; some of it works, much of it comes across as the novelization of every 70's ecology/peace/love manifesto you ever saw. -- Jerry decvax!yale-comix!leichter leichter@yale
ares01@houxz.UUCP (09/21/83)
"The Word for World is Forest" was written by Ursula LeGuin. mac
cas@cvl.UUCP (Cliff Shaffer) (09/21/83)
"The Word for World is Forest" was written by Ursula K. LeGuin.
If you want to find good shorter science fiction (well... lets say
better than the average) look at:
1) The Hugo Winners - Issac Asimov has published 3 volumes, from the
beginning of the award to about 1976(??).
2) The Nebula Winners - Each year's non-novel winners are published
in a single volume by various editors.
3) The Science Fiction Hall of Fame - This (I think) bears some
relationship to the Nebula winners - maybe SFWA's picks of good
stories from before when Nebulas were given. Anyway, this is
considered a good collection (I think it has 3 volumes spread over
5 or 6 books).
Cliff Shaffer
{seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!cvl!casrlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (09/21/83)
I believe that, in this very newsgroup, I once read that someone or other felt that Left Hand of Darkness by U. K. LeGuin is best read only after reading another of her books. Will that person (or someone else) please let me know which book that would be? Also, another query. I was once told about a short story (?) where someone is being chased throughout some desolate planet (??) and is caught by his (human?) predators in the end. The story actually ends with the predatee (the one being chased) saying that they can't do this to him, he is god. To which the predators respond "That's O.K. We're mankind. Come along." Does anyone know of this story and where it can be found? Thanx in advance. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
spaf@gatech.UUCP (09/25/83)
The story which had god being chased and caught by Man was in the
"Dangerous Visions" collection, edited by Harlan Ellison. I'd tell
you the name of the story and author, but the confounded rascal who
last borrowed my (fourth!) copy of the book failed to ever return it.
For those of you who have not yet read "Dangerous Visions" or
"Again, Dangerous Visions" -- do so. I'd be interested in knowing
which stories in these collections are people's favorites. Also,
didn't Ellison claim to have enough material to do a "Last Dangerous
Visions"? Whatever happened to that?
--
The padded cell of Gene Spafford
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uucp: ...!{akgua, allegra, rlgvax, sb1, ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!spafUC.ART@MIT-EECS@sri-unix.UUCP (09/27/83)
From: Arturo Perez@MIT-EECS <UC.ART@MIT-EECS> This is in reply to pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!gant at Ucb-Vax's message claiming that the novelette(?) "The Word for World is Forest" was by Kate Wilhelm. 'Tis not true. That was written by Ursula LeGuin. Have Fun!!
eric@aplvax.UUCP (09/27/83)
Last I knew, Harlan was still planning on finishing "Last Dangerous Visions", and there are authors who have submitted stories to it. On the other hand, when hearing these same authors speak of it, they seem to imply that it will be published the day after hell freezes over. When (if?) it comes out, it will probably be an interesting volume, for these "new" stories will actually reflect the earlier work of some of the authors. -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (09/28/83)
Thanx to all who responded to my request for the name of the story where man chases (and captures) god. "Evensong" from the "Dangerous Vision" collection. Am I to understand that "A Boy and His Dog" is also in this collection?? The only response to my query about which book one should read before attempting Left Hand of Darkness came from Craig Partridge, who was not the poster of the original note regarding this topic, but still provided some useful info. Thank you, Craig. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr