tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.comments2024-03-06T08:05:29.800-05:00Casual DebrisCasual Debrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comBlogger397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-21802323700572481202024-03-03T10:36:03.995-05:002024-03-03T10:36:03.995-05:00Hi Andy,
This is not an episode of Tales from the...Hi Andy,<br /><br />This is not an episode of Tales from the Darkside, but sounds instead like the Ray Bradbury short story "The Emissary," which was filmed for The Ray Bradbury Theatre. Is this what you are looking for: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0683214/?ref_=ttpl_ov<br /><br />Let me know.Casual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-31613479278644922772024-03-03T08:22:53.531-05:002024-03-03T08:22:53.531-05:00Can you help me? I saw a clip from the 1988 . Arou...Can you help me? I saw a clip from the 1988 . Around that time. Before or after. I was only 8 years old. I remember the school teacher goes to the boys house. He's sick or so things keeping him from school. But his teacher dies<br /> But still goes and visits him. I just remember the door and shesl say company's here. Can you help me ? Thanks andy ziepke<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-41493780342842218362024-02-21T18:27:19.557-05:002024-02-21T18:27:19.557-05:00Bleary eyes...Sturrock, that was meant to be.Bleary eyes...Sturrock, that was meant to be.Todd Masonhttps://socialistjazz.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-79064500010194029972024-02-21T18:24:57.972-05:002024-02-21T18:24:57.972-05:00And, I take, the Sturnock illustration was in the ...And, I take, the Sturnock illustration was in the original appearance in HARPER'S?Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-8689694748549789302024-02-21T18:22:39.955-05:002024-02-21T18:22:39.955-05:00Or, "might overstimate"...Or, "might overstimate"...Todd Masonhttps://socialistjazz.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-48555969321630707072024-02-21T18:21:25.249-05:002024-02-21T18:21:25.249-05:00I think you might overestimating the seriousness w...I think you might overestimating the seriousness with which most people throw around terms such as "ghost story" or "horror story" (which this one is), and it's not even a "zombie story" in the earliest sense of that term, though it's certainly a "revenant story" with a magic akin to vodu involved. I note that the first two anthologists cited by ISFDB to snap it up for "genre" anthologies had it right: <i>Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood</i> edited by V. H Collins, and Dorothy Sayers's (natch) <i> Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror</i>...it took till such sloppier labelers as Bennett Cerf to lump it in entirely with ghosts. I first read it in Kathleen Lines's THE HOUSE OF THE NIGHTMARE AND OTHER STORIES, one of the key volumes of my youthful reading, when I was 8yo.<br /><br />It is a lovely story, and it's notable that Jacobs was mostly known as a humorist during most of his career. Robert Bloch certainly liked to write/speak of the relation that humor and horror have, and not he alone...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-47598439140892080122024-01-13T14:10:59.176-05:002024-01-13T14:10:59.176-05:00I was a big fan of Terry Carr anthologies back in ...I was a big fan of Terry Carr anthologies back in the day. I might have read UNIVERSE 14 but I'm not sure. I did read all of Carr's YEARS BEST anthologies faithfully.Diane Kelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04827934769386682220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-70192197508383157902023-12-23T22:27:25.841-05:002023-12-23T22:27:25.841-05:00Patti, Thanks so much! Sorry I missed your comment...Patti, Thanks so much! Sorry I missed your comment initially, just a busy time...Casual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-44971584141826570682023-12-23T22:26:43.303-05:002023-12-23T22:26:43.303-05:00Tracy, I find Tiptree to be among the best. Her wo...Tracy, I find Tiptree to be among the best. Her work is always thought-provoking and manages to also include a nice twist. Her writing is challenging and in a good way.Casual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-80163216829796252722023-12-23T05:41:44.638-05:002023-12-23T05:41:44.638-05:00Great blog postGreat blog postNew Wave Girlhttps://new-wave-girl.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-75996009042135385482023-12-13T20:25:18.865-05:002023-12-13T20:25:18.865-05:00What a great review. What a great review. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-54382743078444072172023-12-13T19:20:03.360-05:002023-12-13T19:20:03.360-05:00There are so many older science fiction writers th...There are so many older science fiction writers that I have not read at all. I will look out for stories by this writer.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-36431206232300319922023-12-11T12:48:59.509-05:002023-12-11T12:48:59.509-05:00And Mills was correct in resurrecting the story. I...And Mills was correct in resurrecting the story. It was not yet reprinted (except for the reprints of the original anthology, which seems to have done well), yet since Mills's reprint the story was picked up by several editors in all types of collections, and lauded by many as Baucher's best story. Colleagues or not, Mills was sharp with this move.Casual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-87010544941785038432023-12-09T11:36:47.012-05:002023-12-09T11:36:47.012-05:00Boucher's successor editor, Robert P. Mills, w...Boucher's successor editor, Robert P. Mills, worked closely with Boucher for years and I believe they had no little mutual appreciation...Boucher would need to make no special pleading, I'm sure.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-58423424137054445452023-12-09T11:35:26.498-05:002023-12-09T11:35:26.498-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-84484538592802134782023-11-28T07:41:51.243-05:002023-11-28T07:41:51.243-05:00I'll need to dig a bit, as it's not obviou...I'll need to dig a bit, as it's not obviously in a quick skim online (perhaps even looking to Mark RIch's not terribly balanced bio), but I wonder when Mary Byers and Kornbluth's deeply learning-disabled child was born, and how their mutual situation led up to forming what I see as the double-bottomed message of this story...which, too often, is seen of late as All For mass murder. <br /><br />Ah, well. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-59032544547687253432023-11-28T07:25:32.472-05:002023-11-28T07:25:32.472-05:00Hm. I don't remember any mooting of any other ...Hm. I don't remember any mooting of any other sort of chauvinism being endorsed by the Secret Rulers of the future in "Marching"...but it has been a number of years since I've read it...likewise, I don't see the protagonist's fate as Revenge so much as disposal/dismissal once his usefulness is at an end. I don't think Kornbluth at any point endorses anything about those who use the hapless survivor to execute, in every sense, their desired result...and that is much of his point. But I seem to be relatively lonely in seeing it this way...but it is clear to me that Kornbluth is mocking those who see themselves as natural and deserving elites in a way that any survivor (which Kornbluth barely was) of WW2, particularly when Jewish, might be inclined to do. I'm glad you do gather they had their own Final Solution in mind...but were glad to have someone work out the final details for them, so that they could choose not to deal with their complicity.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-49710063113679424182023-11-22T10:48:42.491-05:002023-11-22T10:48:42.491-05:00The Luminist Archives will allow you to check the ...The Luminist Archives will allow you to check the (relatively few) subsequent issues of this SPACE SF (as opposed to Lyle Kenyon Engel's much worse later and even shorter-lived one) for any reader response: https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-63278636395287899372023-11-22T10:36:38.046-05:002023-11-22T10:36:38.046-05:00At that point in his career, I imagine Dick was pr...At that point in his career, I imagine Dick was probably mildly annoyed by something such as thoughtless "spoiler" illustrations, but too busy moving on to new work to spend too much time worrying about it. Popping speed probably could tend to cause one to Move On even if one did want to indulge in some irritation.<br /><br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-80083983603666861312023-11-13T14:49:13.147-05:002023-11-13T14:49:13.147-05:00Thank you Bobby for taking the time to leave a com...Thank you Bobby for taking the time to leave a comment. Yeah, I've probably missed many points, but these stories offer such a rich tapestry.<br /><br />I don't think I claim that science fiction is about predicting the future. In fact, Bradbury was interested in the human psyche and how people react and respond to extreme situations, using different genres to explore different ideas. He does this best, I think. in his horror fiction (The October Country is my favourite of his collections).<br /><br />I do enjoy, however, poking at early SF for its silliness (in modern eyes), but I do this for fun & no disrespect is intended. (You should glance at some of my other reviews.)<br /><br />Best,<br />FrankCasual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-89641162212956329392023-11-10T16:20:36.584-05:002023-11-10T16:20:36.584-05:00In a otherwise very good review, I think you miss ...In a otherwise very good review, I think you miss some points. Most SF isn't about predicting the future (only a very small sub-set of writers do that), but a play of ideas playfully deployed, or a channel for personal concerns, here Bradbury's requiem for lives forlorn with regret. So what if all his astronauts are men? or that the space travel is not correct to what historical happened later? Does that negate a brilliant Sturgeon, Dick or Sheckley story? It would make all space travel utterly tiresome if they had NASA technology. The film 'Forbidden Planet' and 'Star Trek' have a beauty in their imaginative aesthetics, as much as Kubrick's in '2001'. And that ency of the one man who had experience with women, replicates what soldiers in the great wars also conveyed, who were also facing the certainty of death.<br />bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07776447691709988024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-77524095331790469222023-11-09T01:19:23.128-05:002023-11-09T01:19:23.128-05:00Martin generally better in shorter forms, I'd ...Martin generally better in shorter forms, I'd say...the first work of his that struck me as excessively self-indulgent was THE ARMAGEDDON RAG. <br /><br />I rather enjoyed THE OUTER LIMITS revival pilot, as well.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319611413831679096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-56537884615423448702023-10-18T15:34:02.861-04:002023-10-18T15:34:02.861-04:00While I read this one first in R is for Rocket or ...While I read this one first in <i>R is for Rocket</i> or <i>S is for Space</i>, as a kid. One of his most deft, and clearly a pop fave. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104399586348314594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-2547328906839790802023-10-11T17:12:20.257-04:002023-10-11T17:12:20.257-04:00I read this story in The Time Traveler's Alman...I read this story in The Time Traveler's Almanac edited by Ann and Jeff Vandemere. I enjoyed it and was glad to finally read a story I had heard much about. And this reminds me I need to read more of those stories. The book is gigantic.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163165929158089008.post-33856323922195203562023-10-06T11:09:53.628-04:002023-10-06T11:09:53.628-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jordan Prejeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153214679480741539noreply@blogger.com