Yup, he did that.
The best maybe include the unforgettable one about a planet full of robots
who all speak Chaucerian English, 'cept that none of them are really robots,
from the Star Diaries, and 'Gruppenfuhrer Louis XVI' which concerns a colony
of SS refuges in South America who pretend they're the court of le roi
soleil.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Printmaker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: Noble Mouse
> "david.bircumshaw" wrote:
> >
> > Ursula Le Guin is quality, Dom, but c'mon, there's nobody to equal S.
Lem.
> >
> > After whom a lunar module was named, y'know: the LEM.
> >
> > And he's given up creative writing for the last decade, which says it
all.
>
>
> I agree re Le Guin
>
> Wasnt it Lem who wrote a short story about a missionery who
> tried to take god to an alien civilisation? The missionary
> made such a song and dance about martyrs and the horrid
> deaths of saints that the aliens eventually obliged him.
>
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