tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post1162896673123230205..comments2024-03-28T16:17:20.965-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The War with the Gizmos -- Murray Leinstermybillcriderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-50488370379367715312008-10-29T14:07:00.000-05:002008-10-29T14:07:00.000-05:00It had a name then: Space Opera. That was, and sti...It had a name then: Space Opera. That was, and still is, good enough for me. I love Leinster, I read his stuff when it first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction (well, the stuff from 1949 on) and I own, like you, Bill, several collections.<BR/><BR/>Modern science fiction may be sophisticated and have more writerly attributes, it may reek of cool high-math science and all that, it may be drenched in psychological drama and flavored with the innuendo of importance, but it sure as heck ain't FUN the way it used to be!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-50143489239889724502007-02-12T21:03:00.000-06:002007-02-12T21:03:00.000-06:00Yeah, the stories are still a lot of fun to read, ...Yeah, the stories are still a lot of fun to read, for me, at least.<BR/><BR/>And smoking does save lives when you're dealing with sentient gas bags.<BR/><BR/>And finally, I have to admit that I should have said that Leinster was writing science fiction before it had a name, or at least the one it currently has.mybillcriderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-82155101058642194552007-02-12T20:47:00.000-06:002007-02-12T20:47:00.000-06:00Yeah, Leinster's stories are dated and flawed, but...Yeah, Leinster's stories are dated and flawed, but they're still a helluva lot of fun to read.Patrick Shawn Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14832860010935241958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-9994103878503385052007-02-12T20:34:00.000-06:002007-02-12T20:34:00.000-06:00And, to be arguable (as I always am), it was more ...And, to be arguable (as I always am), it was more that Jenkins/Leinster began writing sf before that particularly label was settled upon, and certainly before AMAZING STORIES was founded as the scienfitiction magazine, much less SCIENCE WONDER or WONDER STORIES as the "science fiction" magazine...I wonder, being tired and my memory of this being slight anyway, if ARGOSY was using the "scientific romance" tag for their sf stories (such as Jenkins's), that the British popular magazines used for Wells and colleagues in the 1890s...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-62370929339897157462007-02-12T20:14:00.000-06:002007-02-12T20:14:00.000-06:00Bill,"Smoking saves lives"!! You gotta elaborate ...Bill,<BR/><BR/>"Smoking saves lives"!! You gotta elaborate on that. This sounds like the book for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com