Short Stories 33-35: Mathoms from the Time Closet

Marc Aramini · 12 Jun 2012, 16:08 · from 2012-June.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:08:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Short Stories 33-35: Mathoms from the Time Closet
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In any case, there is a strain of dystopian "what if the zeitgeist of the youth counterculture and socialist/communist sympathy?of the late 1960s - early 1970s proceeds" in a huge percentage of this early Wolfe fiction, and I really do think Wolfe has an overarching series of "events" that join his social commentary stories of the 70s like Loco Parentis and Robot's Story in a somewhat unified continuity, though it is not obvious or even interconnected in terms of character to character.
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Also, the compression of time in Loco Parentis (life just flying by) is going to be seen again in a much more polished and profond manner in "Forlesen".
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