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pizzakarin
Posted 2015-03-17 7:37 AM (#9904 - in reply to #9903)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1950s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Location: Austin, Tx		Other than the super creepy spaceship/being (which is awesome and will hopefully never go out of style), a lot of the fun of this book hinges on following the main character's Chinese Box logic and believing in the type of sociopath that the commander/vampire is. I think that that's vulnerable to us finding out that that's not how brains work in these neurally atypical people and therefore becoming one of those books that was speculating interesting things at the time but feels dated fifty years later.

Of course it could go the other way and exactly what I feel will date it will make it feel prescient and fresh, especially if the science goes that way.

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