Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Human, warm actions like those encounters really bring me up. I hope that others can find the same joy in relating that I do," he said Thursday.
BUT TO THE point: Stand on Zanzibar may be part of the sci-fi world's response to Dune. It seems like a normal "conjures-up-a-chilling-future" novel. But it is a little bit more.
It's too simple: it only makes sense when you're in a hurry, on a bus, or writing for someone to show up. Sci-fi writers are beginning to realize that most of what they do is just mental candy.
The other hero is sent to an obscure African country to set up an industrialization program. While there, he discovers that the inhabitants are mutants: they do not make war and can disarm any hostile feeling toward themselves. It's real, but it does not make the news.
Brooks' strategy came to the fore again in the next event, the 200-yard butterfly. Jim Small went out onto one of the blocks, but then Brooks presented a line-up featuring both Johhny Munk and Steve Kranse a pair he used in this event last year when depth was...