A Political History of SF

[Dave Monroe]

--- Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Mike Bailey sez:
> 
> >I came out as Alfred Bester...
> >with whose work I have absolutely no familiarity
> >(yet)
> 
> Then you should definitely read this test-result as
> a sign from above and give Alfred Bester a spin....

"Anthroresearch Associates in Maiden Lane, New York,
where V.'s Benny Profane becomes a night watchmen and
meets the manikin's, seems a nod to the Alfred
Bester's The Demolished Man. There a guard works in a
Maiden Lane bank. Benny found his job at the
Space/Time Employment Agency, chapter sixteen of The
Demolished Man includes 'Space/d! Time' in the first
paragraph. Bester's novel was the basis for a 1959
opera libretto that Pynchon proposed to the Ford
Foundation for financial backing. The grant
application was denied."

http://web.archive.org/web/20010217115655/pynchonfiles.com/shock.htm

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53533


 
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