Re: Earth Abides, by George R Stewart

"Dan Goodman" <dsgood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Gene Ward Smith wrote:
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>> "Dan Goodman" <dsgood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >> I loved it too.
>> >> With its treatment of ecological balance issues and sociological
>> >> issues, it was way ahead of its time.
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>> > On the other hand, notice its treatment of race.
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>> Em was light-skinned black, and Ish didn't care.
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> Sorry.  I was thinking of the Negro community Ish found, which he found
> uncomfortably deferential to him.  I don't think a novel written ten
> years later would have had them treating him as a superior.
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I got more of "oh god the white man is back and gonna take all our stuff
and 
punish us." vibe from them.  It was written in 1949 after all.