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Mar. 30th, 2012 16:37Thursday March 29, 2012. Background idea: Humans were the original inhabitants of Heaven and Hell.
***"He is inexplicably a fan of the idiotic The Testament of Jessie Lamb, which is the sort of Life Boat Rules novel where the characters eventually decide to take the daring step of addressing a leaky life raft by drilling a large hole in the bottom of the boat for the water to flow out. I understand there's a great sympathy in SF for people making hard decisions in bad situations; I just wish the situations did not tend to be contrived and the solutions ludicrous."
http://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/3591718.html
Context: "British genre author Christopher Priest is not entirely pleased with the short list for the Clarke Award." Link to http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1077/hull-0-scunthorpe-3/
I stopped worrying about sf awards in 1992, when a Charles Addams collection won the Best Nonfiction Hugo.
***"He is inexplicably a fan of the idiotic The Testament of Jessie Lamb, which is the sort of Life Boat Rules novel where the characters eventually decide to take the daring step of addressing a leaky life raft by drilling a large hole in the bottom of the boat for the water to flow out. I understand there's a great sympathy in SF for people making hard decisions in bad situations; I just wish the situations did not tend to be contrived and the solutions ludicrous."
http://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/3591718.html
Context: "British genre author Christopher Priest is not entirely pleased with the short list for the Clarke Award." Link to http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1077/hull-0-scunthorpe-3/
I stopped worrying about sf awards in 1992, when a Charles Addams collection won the Best Nonfiction Hugo.