Synopsis: This is the tale of Allan Mann (serial number 2473R6), a young man who is a bit too passionate to fell well into the rigidly-
Technocratic society of the early 4th Millennium A.D. When he refuses to let the atomic-motor project he's been working on for the past two years be simply turned over to another engineer, he is arrested for a "
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I'd say you put just about as much physical effort and ten times as much thought into this review, as Hamilton put into the story. “Hey, it's a paycheck, awright?” I've read a good number of such pulp efforts, and they're pretty much of a pattern - a dashed-off idea, dashed-off characters, somewhat interesting results, and hey-ho and away we go to the next one!
With that said, this truly was a VERY thoughtful review, and made very good points. The notion that a collectivist oligarchy of self-appointed priest-kings knows better than you how your life should be run, was all the rage in the 1930s and formed the basis of the (ironically named, as they all were) Democratic Party to this very day - see Hillarycare. That, as van Mises and Hayek pointed out, this is simply WRONG, doesn't matter… to those priest-kings. If at first you don't succeed, try try again…
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writing was exceptionally good…repeatedly anthologized… still read
No argument there. Every so often the environment produces unexpected and literally exceptional quality. One of the fifty-two films Warner Bros cranked out in 1942 - that's one complete movie every week, all year long, and that's just one studio; when they speak of the “film industry” that's what's meant - was a somewhat slap-dash production called Casablanca.
It happens. But now, name any of the fifty-one others! For every Gary Larsen's The Far Side, there are dozens of “Larry Garsons.” Sometimes the stuff in these old pulps is halfway decent; other times it keeps the pages from being blank. A lot of Ace Double novels are the same: For every Andre Norton or Murray Leinster there are dozens of authors unknown today - save to collectors of Ace Double novels!
[And as for Edgar Rice Burroughs imitators, hoo, I should hope to tell you!]
I'm fascinated by Technocracy, Utilitarianism, &c., because I'm working on and ( ... )
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