Now I'm really starting to feel old. I can't get on at all with Banks and McLeod.
Having grown up with E.E.(Doc) Smith's Lensman Series, I lean more towards Peter F. Hamilton (no
relation) and Julian May's Rampart Worlds as well as her main Remillard family sagas.
Roger
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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 6:07 PM
Subject: Ken McLeod
>I kept on meaning to ask Doug Barbour this from the minute he turned me on
> to Ken McLeod but somehow never got round to it, but maybe the way this
> thread is going, it might be worth throwing out generally (as well as
> obviously to Doug in especial) ...
>
> ... but what hit me the minute I began to read McLeod was just how *local*,
> both in time and space, some of his references were -- Glasgow University in
> the seventies, but. It was so detailed that it actually threw me that
> McLeod's experience of the QM Union wasn't the same as mine. (Mine would
> have been about ten years earlier.)
>
> But what I wondered was just how much of this travelled -- I mean, I'm not
> sure how far it would travel in Scotland even. (What would they know about
> the Queen Margaret Union -- the ladies' union, physical space, not
> organisation -- in Edinburgh, even?)
>
> I'd walked much the same walk as McLeod, but even then ... It wasn't that
> his politics weren't the same as mine, but given that ten year difference,
> it was pretty bloody obvious that the very *nature* of student politics up
> the Hill had shifted.
>
> So anyway, I had this weird sensation that a bit of what McLeod was writing
> simply wouldn't make *sense* outside a narrow range of his readers.
>
> So anyway, if this ramble makes any sense, what do people elsewhere make of
> this side of his work?
>
> Robin
>
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