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

On 2008-05-04, John F. Eldredge <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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".

Hmm.  I'd call that more "the minimial amounts of danger are necessary".

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Aaron Denney
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