Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth

From	David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	rec.arts.sf.written
Subject	Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth
Date	2018-04-15 09:19 -0600
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This short story is a combination of the Wizard of Oz and Heinlein's 
Magic Incorporated, a brief look at a world built on the "Sufficiently 
reliable magic is indistinguishable from technology." lines.  Flying 
carpets instead of cars, skyscrapers, chemical factories producing magic 
potions and what have you.  And like Magic Incorporated organized crime 
has moved in, although unlike Magic Incorporate organized crime won. 
And unlike Thirteen O'Clock. Magic Incorporated didn't suck so hard it 
could be used to remove chrome from bumpers.

Seriously Thirteen O'Clock is awful from the moment the protagonist 
decides he loves the "witch" he meets based on a minute's acquaintance 
to the ending where he mutilates her because no self-respecting man can 
tolerate his wife being more dangerous than he is.  He cuts off her 
finger to remove her power to blast things and they live happily ever 
after having left the crapsack magical world not one iota better than 
when he arrived.  Spare me.

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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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