The revolutionaries of May

[Carvill, John]

<<  I've long taken something along these lines as given.  GR ends up in
70s LA.  The War seems as much Vietnam as WWII (as ... as ...).  CF.
the truism about SF, that it's always "really" "about" its own
sociohistorical context,  As is most everything ... >>

Absolutely. Just to clarify: I wasn't suggesting that Janos was the first person to see GR as being 'about' 70s LA (or America). I was just saying that I found Janos's suggestions about how IV casts new light on that long-established subject particularly intriguing.

<< been wondering if one might
eventually divide the novels thus: Lot49/VL/IV, GR/M&D/AtD, with V.
split between them/at (of course) their point of divergence >>

That sure is one way to froup them. But there seems to be a consensus building about the 'California Trilogy' of COL49/VL/IV, and of course there's quite a lot of truth in that, but it just seems to me that this ignores the LA connections with GR, and I have always found that stuff pretty intriguing: it's like, the hints are sort of obvious, until you try to pin them down and connect them up, at which point they vanish like smoke....