Re: Arthur C. Clarke question

On Mar 14, 2:30=A0am, "Mike Stone" <mwst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Butch Malahide wrote:
> > > On Mar 13, 6:45 pm, lal_truckee <lal_truc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> Butch Malahide wrote:
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> > >>> Anderson again: Time Heals; The Man Who Came Early
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> > >> I've never run across (or even heard of) "Time Heals" - is it
> > >> sufficiently different and sufficiently good to seek it out? I'm
> > >> quite fond of "The Man Who Came Early."
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> > > To praise it with faint damns, it's not as good as "The Man Who Came
> > > Early". Like TMWCE, it's the tragedy of a man displaced in time,
> > > trapped in a society that has no use for him. Unlike TMWCE, he goes
> > > into the future, and his time-travel is deliberate: dying of cancer,
> > > he has himself put in stasis to await a cure. He is quite optimistic
> > > about his prospects of making a life for himself in the future; if
> > > you
> > > like surprises, I've already spoiled it by telling you it doesn't
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> > > out that way.
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> > Wow, it's a downbeat Anderson story? =A0 If you say so.
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> Poul wrote quite a few downbeat stories. Just off the top of my head, I
> recall "Murphy's Hall", "The Pugilist", "Windmill", "The Disinherited"
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> "Home") "Goat Song", "Night Piece", "A Man To My Wounding", "For The
> Duration", "Details" and the novel _A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows_. FTM
> "The Man Who Came Early" could be considered
> downbeat.

The first Poul Anderson story I ever read was "Tomorrow's Children",
which I considered fairly downbeat. I don't think _The Broken Sword_
is very upbeat either.