Inhumi in the Whorl

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 09 Feb 2011, 00:47 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:47:11 -0800
Subject: (urth) Inhumi in the Whorl
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On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:16 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
> One might as well expect all literary characters who drive
> cars and live in houses to always talk about carburetors and power tools,
> just because.
>
> (Now that would be funny....)

It's been done -- I don't recall the title, but Randall Garrett wrote
a parody of early SF (specifically of Hugo Gernsback), set in the real
world of the '60s, in which characters (and the narrator) constantly
talk about the marvels of science they daily interact with. It's in
his collection TAKEOFF!, I believe.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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