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It would have been nice for the author to point out the original influences for their "embedded short story", like Orphans of the Sky by Heinlein.
by toyg 4y ago
It would have been nice for the author to point out the original influences for their "embedded short story", like Orphans of the Sky by Heinlein.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoGeneration ship is a trope with countless examples, no single one. It's practically a vocabulary word like 'space ship'. I would have said Brian W. Aldiss 'Non-Stop' or Ben Bova 'The Exiles' or Harlan Ellison 'The Starlost', but only because they just happen to be some of the examples I happen to have encountered and found particularly memorable. I've probably read and forgotten 20 others.
- blamestross 4y agoOrphans of the Sky wins the influence race by being published in 1951.
- euroderf 4y agoThe Canadian TV adaptation of Starlost was great. Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow. Low-budget fun. Worth a watch.
- toyg 4y agoWell, good for you - not everyone is as well-versed in sci-fi tropes.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoLet me see... You can presume to correct the blog author while in fact being in error yourself, yet you can not tolerate being corrected. Got it.
- toyg 4y agoYou seem to have a problem with the correct use of words. 1. Ignorance is not error. 2. There was no correction. I simply suggested it would have been somewhat polite to point people in the direction of their original sources, considering the very literary post.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoIt's true I should have said you can't tolerate being informed since that's really all I did.