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Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth

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In article <pb275s$4d3$2@dont-email.me>, Bill Gill  <billnews2@cox.net> wrote:
>On 4/15/2018 11:35 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
>> Have you read Turtledove's_The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump_?
>> It's alternate-world-just-like-ours-except-with-magic done with
>> skill and a laudable attention to detail.  There's a whole lot of
>> Turtledove I can't/won't read, but this is an exception.
>
>I fully agree.  Spell Dump is the only Turtledove I have been
>able to read.  And I have reread it several times.

I'll also suggest the "fixup novel" _Earthgrip,_ which is a
collection of two stories and a novella.  The protagonist is an
academic who's signed aboard a trading ship to flesh out her
resume.  In the first story she solves a problem by having read
Heinlein.  In the second, she solves another by having read
Sherlock Holmes.  But in the novella, she solves a much serious
problem by being familiar with *the concept of science fiction*
as an aid to creative thinking.  Worth a read; I even reread it
occasionally.

He also has a novella "Down in the Bottomlands" which was
published bundled with de Camp's "The Wheels of If."  Thesis:
the Mediterranean basin hasn't filled up recently and both
Neanderthals (or something looking very like them) and modern
humans are living around the basin and have atomic weapons....

And that's all the Turtledove I can recommend, bar a couple of
short stories such as "The Road Not Taken."

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-15 09:19 -0600
  Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 16:35 +0000
    Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-04-15 20:45 +0000
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-15 15:36 -0600
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-04-15 17:39 -0400
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-15 21:43 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 22:33 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-04-15 21:43 -0700
    Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2018-04-16 08:07 -0500
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 13:26 +0000
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2018-04-16 14:47 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 21:59 +0000
          Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-16 22:29 +0000
            Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 23:42 +0000
            Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2018-04-17 14:07 +0000
              Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-17 16:07 +0000
  Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-16 15:13 +0000

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