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Stories read this month:
1973/72 Novelette: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson This is a SF retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice. I thought it did a very good job with the mythical correspondences.
1982/81 Novella: "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson This story is awfully negative about roleplaying, but it does have an awesome setting.
1995/94 Novella: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick [*] This story is very bleak, yet I found myself drawn in. The concept of the story, of an archeological dig on Earth long after the fall of humanity was neat too. The team is able to look back on human history through a series of artifacts. Social Justice Stuff: I'm not a fan of call humanity Man and referring to us with a masculine pronoun. There are a fair number of Black people in this story, but they are generally portrayed as primitive and/or corrupt.
Milestones:
I've now read all the stories through 1978. My library has a gap at 1979 though, so I'll have to track those stories down else where.
I've now read all the Poul Anderson stories on the list.
[*]Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick is available free online.
Stories read this month:
1973/72 Novelette: "Goat Song" by Poul Anderson This is a SF retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice. I thought it did a very good job with the mythical correspondences.
1982/81 Novella: "The Saturn Game" by Poul Anderson This story is awfully negative about roleplaying, but it does have an awesome setting.
1995/94 Novella: "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge" by Mike Resnick [*] This story is very bleak, yet I found myself drawn in. The concept of the story, of an archeological dig on Earth long after the fall of humanity was neat too. The team is able to look back on human history through a series of artifacts. Social Justice Stuff: I'm not a fan of call humanity Man and referring to us with a masculine pronoun. There are a fair number of Black people in this story, but they are generally portrayed as primitive and/or corrupt.
Milestones:
I've now read all the stories through 1978. My library has a gap at 1979 though, so I'll have to track those stories down else where.
I've now read all the Poul Anderson stories on the list.
[*]Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge by Mike Resnick is available free online.
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