Comments on: The Hated by Frederik Pohl

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:12:04 +0000

Just happened to see them just as I was deciding to go ahead and leave. I remembered that I hadn’t checked for anything by Asimov and came up with these three books.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:15:17 +0000

That’s great Carl!

Wow – that is quite the score… were you looking for those, or did you just happen into the good deal? Either way, I’m jealous!

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:29:00 +0000

Picked up a nice trade copy of it at BN today! And spent a whopping $1.54 at Half Price books picking up a copy of Asimov short stories, and a copy of Currents of Space and a copy of The Death Dealers, also by Asimov. Score!!!

By: Rusty

Rusty — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:24:45 +0000

Carl,

Yeah, there were some intense feelings in this story. And I think if that happened to me I might feel the same way!

I agree about the sense of wonder in some of these older stories, and in a way it does make them more enjoyable.

Definitely check out Gateway – it is a very cool book!

By: Carl V.

Carl V. — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:25:33 +0000

Whoa, that was pretty intense. I can only imagine the claustrophobia of being in that kind of confined space, and the annoyance of having to share it with others. I think I would have murderous intentions as well.

“I love stories that were written when people still believed there might actually be aliens living on Mars. Ah… the good ol’ days!”

Me too. There is a different sense of wonder and awe associated with those stories and I always enjoy them a little bit more because of that.

Thanks for reviewing this one, my first experience reading Pohl. I hope to get to Gateway soon.

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By: Rusty

Rusty — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:11:50 +0000

Schalken,

Thanks for the info – Project Gutenberg is wonderful resource which I highly recommend!

By: Schalken

Schalken — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:56:20 +0000

Oh my I see you mentioned PG in THIS very post! My apologies

Great site, keep up the good work!

By: Schalken

Schalken — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:54:03 +0000

Have you ever taken a look at Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org)’s collection of sci-fi stories and books? It’s kind of hard (if not impossible) to find any sort of grouping of them, but if you look up individual authors you should be able to find some. I subscribe to their RSS feed of newly posted etexts and see some sci-fi stuff now. I also do some proofreading of what later become Project Gutenberg ebooks over at distributed proofreaders and I’ve seen a number of sci-fi short stories and novels come through there. It’s not all pre-1923 stuff, either; quite a few stories from the 60s. For instance, just last night they posted THE DEMI-URGE by Thomas Michael Disch from a 1960s issue of Amazing Stories. Lots of Mack Reynolds novels, too.

Something to consider!