In article <ft06n9$5hb$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Mark Zenier writes:
>In article <fssd1k$ds5$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Joe Bernstein
<joe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Oh, and then there's that hallmark of "New Wave" in, I think,
>>both movies and sf: depressingness.
>> The difference between, say, "The Cold
>>Equations" and "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" as tragedies.
>New Wave was, in a large part, a reaction against the ENFORCED
>"upstanding people and happy endings". (In other words, it's stuff
>that John W. Campbell wouldn't buy.
> (A rant along those lines is Moorcock's
>"Star****p Stormtroopers" essay that I ran into just a few weeks
>ago on the web).
<googles>
<http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html>
<boggles>
What an incredible idiot! Moorcock was a half-way decent writer, but
his reading skills appear to be atrocious. That article is such a farrago
of errors that if he had posted it here it would have made the group
unusable for months.
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Michael F. Stemper
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