tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post5025194273546662322..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Space Vulture -- Gary K. Wolf and Archbishop John J. MyersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-44513883452836480902008-04-14T17:50:00.000-05:002008-04-14T17:50:00.000-05:00Well, in the time/space of Space Vultures, Rusty.....Well, in the time/space of Space Vultures, Rusty...insert obligatory John McCain joke here, as if his age was extraordinary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-30471508558935757572008-04-14T15:48:00.000-05:002008-04-14T15:48:00.000-05:00Forgive me for humorlessly taking the fun out of t...Forgive me for humorlessly taking the fun out of their little joke, but an IQ score of 850 is way beyond the pale. IQ is generally calculated as [100 x (mental age/chronological age)]. Say the Space Vulture is 30 years old; to get an IQ of 850, he would have to score on the test at the level of the average 255 year old. I can't imagine there'd be a large sample size.<BR/><BR/>RustyRustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618979758069699557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-48800088947335849832008-04-14T10:08:00.000-05:002008-04-14T10:08:00.000-05:00Brackett particularly was writing adventure fictio...Brackett particularly was writing adventure fiction that could stand unashamed with that of anyone else, not getting too jokey with names nor making the exoticism intrusive and giving the story some heft and sense of real consequence for the characters. As far as I'm concerned, among the PLANET folks I've read, only Charles Harness (with his manic invention) and Jack Vance (with his lapidary prose and ironic approach toward humanity rather than toward the work at hand) could consistently touch her...though her husband certainly had his points.<BR/><BR/>Wonder how the book will do in the Bishopric.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-77824454729384934402008-04-14T05:41:00.000-05:002008-04-14T05:41:00.000-05:00Same with me. It might've worked as a mainstream n...Same with me. It might've worked as a mainstream novel, but not as a pulpy adventure.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-51627207129853344662008-04-13T21:34:00.000-05:002008-04-13T21:34:00.000-05:00My feeling exactly, Fred, and I think I mentioned ...My feeling exactly, Fred, and I think I mentioned it here on the blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-31020908484868658112008-04-13T20:35:00.000-05:002008-04-13T20:35:00.000-05:00I had a similar problem with "Chinatown Death Clou...I had a similar problem with "Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" a couple of years ago, although it received several good reviews and a lot of other pulp fans appeared to like it. The tone was all wrong, it seemed to me.Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.com