mantis picks the hits

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 21 Mar 2002, 20:37 · from urth-v0203.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) mantis picks the hits
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:37:34 -0800
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Mantis proclaims:

> There!  Let the disappointment and quibbling begin!

Very well.

> DOWN
> Loco Parentis                       ADV
> Robot's Story                       ADV

Perhaps it's simply because these (along with "With the Lafayette=20
Escadrille") were my first Wolfe encounter of the Gene kind, but
I'm rather fond of both of them.

"Robot's Story" is, to be fair, slight and somewhat dated - it=20
is very much a product of the '60s, in the way that much of DV=20
and A,DV are.

"Loco Parentis" is neither slight nor dated, and is (to my mind)
rather chilling in the way Wolfe does so well. Not _as_ chilling
as, say, FIFTH HEAD, but in the same kind of way.

Tarzan of the Grapes                F&SF 6-72, MWALB (Farmer)

The only other story on the "uncollected Wolfe" list I believe I
have read, this is slight indeed and quite unmemorable.

--Blattid

--=20

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