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

On 2008-05-03 11:28:17 -0700, jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (James Nicoll) said:

> 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.

On the other hand, Batman is pleased with that result, and finishes the 
story smiling at the sunrise.

kdb