Re: F&SF that I Read in 2007: W

On Sat, 03 May 2008 14:28:17 -0400, James Nicoll wrote:

> In article <slrng1p9vt.3c1.wnoise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Aaron Denney 
> <wnoise@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On 2008-05-03, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> 	Actually, there is a plot in a class of guardians who become
>>> so eager to carry out their functions that they find danger where none
>>> exists but that would be a different book than this one.
>>
>>I want to read that book.
>>
> 	I think Harlan Ellison wrote something like that as a Batman
> story. Old pointy-ears spends the entire story looking for criminals to
> beat on but every time he tries to intervene, either the victims deal
> with the problem themselves or it turns out that the situation was not
> what he thought it was.

That is also the basic plot of "With Folded Hands".

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