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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
| Subject | Re: This morning's crap idea. |
| Message-ID | <ntCIIr.F3x@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-08-19 20:06 +0000 |
| References | <mr2cek$4kn$1@dont-email.me> <ntCAFp.23y4@kithrup.com> <mr2f0d$f46$1@dont-email.me> |
| Organization | Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. |
In article <mr2f0d$f46$1@dont-email.me>, William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote: >Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> In article <mr2cek$4kn$1@dont-email.me>, >> William Vetter <mdhangton@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Has there ever been a story published where a lousy SF author >>> time-travels back to the Golden Age to throw his trunk stories over the >>> transom and into a 1930's slushpile? >> >> There's something like it, a story by Harry Turtledove, let me >> look up the title. >> >> ... >> >> The title is "Hindsight," and it's collected in _Kaleidoscope_. > >Ah, see, I wake up with an idea that I think is so crappy, I might as >well post it on usenet; and then you're telling me some guy got a >publication out of it. Make my day, why don't cha. Well, you weren't very far off. It's merely that the writer was not lousy, and, face it, in the Golden Age really lousy writing would probably not get bought either. At one point the 1950s writer says, "It's an old theme, go back in time and make a fortune..." and the time-traveler says, "A fortune? At three cents a word?" The nice thing about "Hindsight" is that Turtledove remembers 1950s California in detail, as I do, and put a lot of little details in and got them right. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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