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Scoring Har-Petruccelli (Lenicheck) 7:19. Har-Kelly (Petruccelli) 12:04. Fair-Miosek (Williams) 20:10. Har-Hench (Lenicheck) 30:21. Saves: Har-Dupuis 4; Fair-Glynn 1, Sheckley...
Saves: Har--Dupuis 3; Fair--Sheckley 4, Wallace...
Some of the other stories are better than Asimov's pitiful offering; some are worse. In "Budget Planet," Robert Sheckley has god speaking with a Yiddish accent. I'm not an especially reverent man, but I was grossed out, K. M. O'Donnell wrote a tedious novella called "Final War" which, he ways, is about "neither war nor death." He goes on to say that it is, in fact, about "the polarization of existences re-enacted on several levels over and again and if that makes no sense, I suppose human life makes no sense either." O'Donnell is, unfortunately...
Utopian Marriage. "Idea as hero,'' Amis says donnishly, is the basis of much present-day science fiction. Utopias, both Orwellian and benign, abound; one interesting Utopian idea, put forth by Science Fictioneer Robert Sheckley, is a society in which wives are placed in suspended animation and warmed up only when needed, so that they age only one year for every dozen on the calendar...
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