A Political History of SF -correction

David Casseres david.casseres at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 22:15:20 CST 2007


Yes, just to fill in the gaps, the two novels are "The Stars My Destination"
and "The Demolished  Man."

On 2/7/07, Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry, "The Stars My Destination".
>
> Heikki
>
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In his Ford Foundation fellowship application of 1959, TRP planned
> > to adapt a scifi novel to the operatic stage, the candidates being
> > Bester's "The Demolition Man" and Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles".
> >
> > My AB favourite is "The Stars Are My Destination". One of the best
> > SF novels I've read. Existential, hardboiled, Shakespearean.
> >
> >
> > By the way, I got James Tiptree Jr.
> >
> >
> > Heikki
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 mikebailey at speakeasy.net wrote:
> > > I came out as Alfred Bester...
> > > with whose work I have absolutely no familiarity (yet)
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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