Thank you!! You made a great day even better! Your reviews and your care to not expose too much, are wonderful, and you got me intrigued for the book! From this cheered viewer, thank you, again!
Excellent! To have lightened someone's day and intrigued them into possibly reading a book. This is a win of a day :) Watch out for that later ones though, they do get pretty spoilery as my enthusiasm increases.
@@OmnivorousReader Finished it this morning. There is something about Cooper's imagination and his ability to inspire mystery and awe that is unrivaled. Obviously he is a fine writer, but his prose isn't what makes him great, at least in my opinion - he just gets SF.
@@PulpMortem Oh well done! That was a sprint of a read, I am still going. A agree, there is something about Cooper, even with his inherent flaws that is just so very SF!
Kept looking into pre decimalisation UK currency after your book haul. £1 (pound) =240 pennies (abbreviation normally d) with 12 pennies to a shilling (normal abbreviation s) and 20 shillings to a pound, and that's even before you get into sixpences thr'pennies and crowns. How anyone got their head round all of this is beyond me. A shilling is the equivalent of 5 pence in post 1971 decimal money. I can't see how the Australian system wasn't the same if it was taking the UK format as a foundation. So after all that the book was approximately 20 cents in new Australian Dollars if the logic holds from UK to Australia. Interesting how he thought the UN would mount Martian Space exploration. He obviously thought the UN would stabilise world relations more than it did. It is always fascinating how pre solar system exploration is depicted in early science fiction when everything was best guess work based on ground telescope observations only. It sounds like a good well written read from your mini review.
I think we can assume then that 4' is four shillings, so twenty pence... This was a read rabbit hole this innocent book led down. Yes, I think a lot of people had huge hopes for the UN, shame it became such an ineffectual puppet so very fast. I think there are other stories that reveal Cooper as considering world cooperation a worthy goal. But aside from the UN, this is a really nice, and pretty individual short story and I do recommend it.
@@OmnivorousReader I do love when something randomly piques my interest and I just have to know more about a subject, it's something I've always been like ever since I was little. I've always loved learning things and it doesn't matter if it has any practical use at all. It's such a shame how bloated and ineffective the UN has turned out to be, even worse than it's predecessor The League of Nations. It's probably always going to be that the big powerful nations hobble it's effectiveness at lasting change and the it just descends into corrupt and often harmful bloat. At least in novels there can still be a utopian vision of a world working in mutual cooperation. Instead of the badly written and often dystopian novel that is reality 😉. Thank god that beauty and individual altruism exists to give hope that there's a brighter future possible. We'll that turned a little darker than I expected lol.
@@adrianmcmahon5731 Well said. I guess that is something I really like about speculative fiction; it can give us the story of how it COULD have turned out, what MIGHT have been, and how.
@OmnivorousReader I think the best SF takes an idea and runs with it to see how it would play out in an imaginative setting. Can be as simple as near future SF where things are just that but different in all manner of different what if scenarios or far future where everything is radically different technologically but humanity often has the same flaws so it can be a brilliant way to highlight aspects of who we are or could become and that's even before you get into all the little offshoots such as alternative histories, alien races etc. That's what I love about SF & Fantasy so much as it is a different way to explore who we are as a species and can draw on some very deep philosophical implications along the way.
Thank you!! You made a great day even better! Your reviews and your care to not expose too much, are wonderful, and you got me intrigued for the book! From this cheered viewer, thank you, again!
Excellent! To have lightened someone's day and intrigued them into possibly reading a book. This is a win of a day :)
Watch out for that later ones though, they do get pretty spoilery as my enthusiasm increases.
I love Edmund Cooper, thanks for not spoiling. I have Tomorrow Came, I'm getting it off the shelf and reading it now!
AWESOME! I look forward to hearing your thoughts. Maybe avoid the other reviews I have posted though, for this book. I get pretty spoliery later.
@@OmnivorousReader Finished it this morning. There is something about Cooper's imagination and his ability to inspire mystery and awe that is unrivaled. Obviously he is a fine writer, but his prose isn't what makes him great, at least in my opinion - he just gets SF.
@@PulpMortem Oh well done! That was a sprint of a read, I am still going. A agree, there is something about Cooper, even with his inherent flaws that is just so very SF!
Kept looking into pre decimalisation UK currency after your book haul. £1 (pound) =240 pennies (abbreviation normally d) with 12 pennies to a shilling (normal abbreviation s) and 20 shillings to a pound, and that's even before you get into sixpences thr'pennies and crowns. How anyone got their head round all of this is beyond me. A shilling is the equivalent of 5 pence in post 1971 decimal money. I can't see how the Australian system wasn't the same if it was taking the UK format as a foundation. So after all that the book was approximately 20 cents in new Australian Dollars if the logic holds from UK to Australia.
Interesting how he thought the UN would mount Martian Space exploration. He obviously thought the UN would stabilise world relations more than it did. It is always fascinating how pre solar system exploration is depicted in early science fiction when everything was best guess work based on ground telescope observations only. It sounds like a good well written read from your mini review.
I think we can assume then that 4' is four shillings, so twenty pence... This was a read rabbit hole this innocent book led down.
Yes, I think a lot of people had huge hopes for the UN, shame it became such an ineffectual puppet so very fast. I think there are other stories that reveal Cooper as considering world cooperation a worthy goal. But aside from the UN, this is a really nice, and pretty individual short story and I do recommend it.
@@OmnivorousReader I do love when something randomly piques my interest and I just have to know more about a subject, it's something I've always been like ever since I was little. I've always loved learning things and it doesn't matter if it has any practical use at all.
It's such a shame how bloated and ineffective the UN has turned out to be, even worse than it's predecessor The League of Nations. It's probably always going to be that the big powerful nations hobble it's effectiveness at lasting change and the it just descends into corrupt and often harmful bloat.
At least in novels there can still be a utopian vision of a world working in mutual cooperation. Instead of the badly written and often dystopian novel that is reality 😉. Thank god that beauty and individual altruism exists to give hope that there's a brighter future possible. We'll that turned a little darker than I expected lol.
@@adrianmcmahon5731 Well said. I guess that is something I really like about speculative fiction; it can give us the story of how it COULD have turned out, what MIGHT have been, and how.
@OmnivorousReader I think the best SF takes an idea and runs with it to see how it would play out in an imaginative setting. Can be as simple as near future SF where things are just that but different in all manner of different what if scenarios or far future where everything is radically different technologically but humanity often has the same flaws so it can be a brilliant way to highlight aspects of who we are or could become and that's even before you get into all the little offshoots such as alternative histories, alien races etc. That's what I love about SF & Fantasy so much as it is a different way to explore who we are as a species and can draw on some very deep philosophical implications along the way.
@@adrianmcmahon5731 Absolutly! Science fiction lacking that speculative and explorative edge can be quite dull at times.