Wyndham's Day of the Triffids. Could still give me nightmares. Is it less
pessimistic if only almost everybody dies?
On the continent, Capek's War with the Newts. Also a happy ending, if one
waits a few dozens of millennia. Manages to be very funny on the way to the
gallows, tho. Capek was lucky enough to die just before the Gestapo got
around to him. His brother wasn't so lucky.
Mark
Query: did the Nazis have science fiction? I mean apart from what they took
to be science.
Mark
At 11:41 AM 5/15/2005, you wrote:
> > I sometimes think that what did me in was reading all that Science
> > Fiction; coming to assume a universe in which, onwards, intelligence
> > keeps growing (not much to support that vision around us right now,
> > viz. Stephen's political note)...
>
>That was very much American SF, Doug -- Brit SF has always been a bit more
>pessimistic (think of say Thomas Disch or Ballard).
>
>Or Wells -- dem dam' Morlochs.
>
>Robin
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