Saw your post on the Breadtube discord server. I like how comprehensive an overview this is of science fiction's early history. You did a good job of maintaining focus on Moore and Kuttner, while weaving in the other important figures of the era, while supporting your thesis/theme. Your delivery is also really clear and easy to listen to. Great stuff, and thanks for posting.
I waited in vain for some pithy comments on “Vintage Season” as well as on the tendency of Kuttner and Moore’s collabs to have the unhappy endings that I remarked upon in my comments on your video about “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (not “Borogroves”). One of the things I find attractive in Kuttner and Moore’s short fiction IS their ability to refuse conventional “once upon a time … happily ever after” summations. Not only do “Vintage Season” and “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” end with death or separation, but “When the Bough Breaks” also ends with death, albeit the death of their horrible child being a great relief to his parents. In addition, my favorite C. L. Moore story, “The Bright Illusion,” ends in the deaths of 3 of the 4 characters … BUT for the 2 lovers we can’t be certain that their deaths are the finale to their love. Now THAT’S a real kicker!
1943 "Astounding" published a story by Catherine Lucille Moore called "Judgement Night" to describe a dressing table vanity of aerosol toiletries on par with Swift 1726 Brobdingnag was ideal for Riken's Kitaro Yoshihara's overseas Patented Ultraviolet laser optical traps to produce nimbus clouds from humid air for a plumbing system since even Steinmetz weather modification patent of 1917 of howitzers to spray clouds of water drops is applicable as are patents for Geissler tube violet ray red laser hair stimulators and patented Korean mascara brush applicators. Other themes in of such a story were VZ aerial platform flying jeeps, crystal edifices, Galactic Empires of spaceflight, and captured essence of such an age as did Miyazaki's "Grave of Fireflies" since SF magazines has reprinted such a story online.
Barditch Patent mentions Steinmetz of 1917 aerosol toiletry weather modification patent so Casparian of Central Europe has used green laser optical traps to produce nimbus storm clouds while Hungarian film "Az Oriasok Orszagaban"(1980) starring Andrea Drahota and Agi Szirtes has a dressing table scene worthy of Catherine Lucille Moore's story in of 1943 "Astounding".
Giving a character brown skin is a choice. As it is, the character comes off as a (literally) monstrous brown savage that almost destroys the brave white hero. It's the kind of thing that was common in the pulps at the time, descending as they do from colonialist narratives of brave white heroes going out into a wilderness full of viscous primitives, which, shall we say, has not aged well.
Saw your post on the Breadtube discord server.
I like how comprehensive an overview this is of science fiction's early history. You did a good job of maintaining focus on Moore and Kuttner, while weaving in the other important figures of the era, while supporting your thesis/theme. Your delivery is also really clear and easy to listen to. Great stuff, and thanks for posting.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for this information. 👌🏾
I waited in vain for some pithy comments on “Vintage Season” as well as on the tendency of Kuttner and Moore’s collabs to have the unhappy endings that I remarked upon in my comments on your video about “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” (not “Borogroves”). One of the things I find attractive in Kuttner and Moore’s short fiction IS their ability to refuse conventional “once upon a time … happily ever after” summations. Not only do “Vintage Season” and “Mimsy Were the Borogoves” end with death or separation, but “When the Bough Breaks” also ends with death, albeit the death of their horrible child being a great relief to his parents. In addition, my favorite C. L. Moore story, “The Bright Illusion,” ends in the deaths of 3 of the 4 characters … BUT for the 2 lovers we can’t be certain that their deaths are the finale to their love. Now THAT’S a real kicker!
This is a totally astute observation.
Catherine Lucille Moore was on par with Asimov and according to Winchell Dosuk Chung's "Atomic Rockets Rho" also had the first space smuggler stories.
Good details! THanks.
1943 "Astounding" published a story by Catherine Lucille Moore called "Judgement Night" to describe a dressing table vanity of aerosol toiletries on par with Swift 1726 Brobdingnag was ideal for Riken's Kitaro Yoshihara's overseas Patented Ultraviolet laser optical traps to produce nimbus clouds from humid air for a plumbing system since even Steinmetz weather modification patent of 1917 of howitzers to spray clouds of water drops is applicable as are patents for Geissler tube violet ray red laser hair stimulators and patented Korean mascara brush applicators.
Other themes in of such a story were VZ aerial platform flying jeeps, crystal edifices, Galactic Empires of spaceflight, and captured essence of such an age as did Miyazaki's "Grave of Fireflies" since SF magazines has reprinted such a story online.
Barditch Patent mentions Steinmetz of 1917 aerosol toiletry weather modification patent so Casparian of Central Europe has used green laser optical traps to produce nimbus storm clouds while Hungarian film "Az Oriasok Orszagaban"(1980) starring Andrea Drahota and Agi Szirtes has a dressing table scene worthy of Catherine Lucille Moore's story in of 1943 "Astounding".
Vintage season is one of my all time favorite short stories…….bu I’m sorry, that comparison is hyperbole
RIP
1:20 I don't cringe at that. She simply had brown skin and was described as such.
Giving a character brown skin is a choice. As it is, the character comes off as a (literally) monstrous brown savage that almost destroys the brave white hero. It's the kind of thing that was common in the pulps at the time, descending as they do from colonialist narratives of brave white heroes going out into a wilderness full of viscous primitives, which, shall we say, has not aged well.
She was so far ahead of her time. Lots of 'what if's'....🤔
The racial stuff doesn't bother me. Everybody was doing it.