Re: YASID: Algis Budrys story, protagonist vs. cop, hurricane

"mimus" <tinmimus99@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:10:28 +0000, Martha Adams wrote:
>
>> On topic of hurricanes, I liked Farley Mowat, 'The Serpent's
>> Coil'.  A little farther out is his 'Grey Seas Under.'  These
>> both are books that once you start, you don't set it down
>> until you reach the end.
>
> His _Never Cry Wolf_ is an absolute classic, right down to trappers
> blaming wolves for declining trappings due to excessive trapping and
> ranchers pu****ng pasture-land into wolf territory and then demanding 
> the
> wolves be exterminated.
>
> He was a Socialist, too, apparently, so the Reagan Administration 
> banned
> him from entering the US . . . .
>
> -- 
>
> When was the last time you heard an American politician
> use the word "plutocracy"?

The above led me to have a look at what Google offers on topic of
Farley Mowat.  It's a lot.  I think Mowat is one of our Great Men of
these times.  He upset a few people; critics say he was loose with
the facts in his writings.  He answered to effect that he didn't let
the facts interfere with the truth.  He also wrote a book I think is
strongly relevant to understanding the kind of people we'll be
seeing in space (hopefully) in coming generations.  It's about
people living in tough environments, it's his book, 'The Snow
Walker.'  Its topic is Canadian Eskimos; but much in it
translates remarkably to living off-Terra.

Titeotwawki -- mha    [rasfw 2008 May 14]