(urth) Inhumi in the Whorl

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Tue Feb 8 17:57:06 PST 2011


I will look for it---thanks!

On 2/8/2011 7:47 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Stockhoff<dstockhoff at verizon.net>  wrote:
>> One might as well expect all literary characters who drive
>> cars and live in houses to always talk about carburetors and power tools,
>> just because.
>>
>> (Now that would be funny....)
> It's been done -- I don't recall the title, but Randall Garrett wrote
> a parody of early SF (specifically of Hugo Gernsback), set in the real
> world of the '60s, in which characters (and the narrator) constantly
> talk about the marvels of science they daily interact with. It's in
> his collection TAKEOFF!, I believe.
>


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