A Brief Explanation, part III of V

[Juana]

That ending, man. That was something else. I like it, though. I look forward to the other ones.

[P3nT4gR4m]

[Payne]

Also, so far, I'm catching certain tenuous themes, but no unified message yet. Unless that message is "unremitting horror caused by ignorance, entrapment and lonliness". I fel there is more to it than that though, but of course will wait until part V.

Good solid writing, and an excellent use of imagery (that is staying with me even though I can't remember the exact wording of each part).

An interesting format for this series too, I'm liking it Dok.

[Richter]

This is better than most of the pulp magazine sci-fi I've ever read.  Better material, and more madness behind it.  Dok, this stuff needs wider dispersal.

[Telarus]

This is better than most of the pulp magazine sci-fi I've ever read.  Better material, and more madness behind it.  Dok, this stuff needs wider dispersal.

This. I totally had flashbacks of old musty paperbacks while reading these.

[Doktor Howl]

This is better than most of the pulp magazine sci-fi I've ever read.  Better material, and more madness behind it.  Dok, this stuff needs wider dispersal.

Thanks.  I may combine all of this.

[LMNO]

All of this is really good, and is making me think. 

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

I read this over the weekend and have not been able to get it off my brain.  

I will pass on the message from the boys....

MOAR!!!! 

[Jenne]

This is some realllllly good stuff, Rog.  I'm eagerly awaiting the next one.  I like how Payne described how he saw it--kind of has affected me in the same way.  I think I'm starting to get a feel for the underlying message...I THINK.

[Doktor Howl]

I read this over the weekend and have not been able to get it off my brain.  

I will pass on the message from the boys....

MOAR!!!! 

IV is up.

[Jasper]

So far what I get from this series is themes of human nature, with a focus on the ways our own civilzation and intelligence grants us worse fates than death.

Warmer?  Cooler?

[Doktor Howl]

So far what I get from this series is themes of human nature, with a focus on the ways our own civilzation and intelligence grants us worse fates than death.

Warmer?  Cooler?

Not really.  I think I can do this by the end of V.

[Doktor Howl]

I used to love pulp science fiction, during its last gasp in the 1980s.

I've been bouncing the first story around in my head for 20 years.  The second one even longer, though I have a paralyzing suspicion that it isn't original, that I may have read something like it in one of the 80s pulp mags, and simply forgotten...It's been 20-30 years, and I can't remember how I thought of it, or even if I did.

The first story I thought of when I read an article by some weenie in Omni Magazine moaning about how we "ruined" the moon by putting footprints on it, and how we had no right to go to Mars because there might still be one or two microbes left that we'd kill.  Because we're evil.  It occurred to me that either environmental groups or groups opposed to spending resources in space (as opposed to feeding the hungry here) might actually sabotage a space mission to "make their point".

The second story seems almost too familiar, because I've been thinking about it occasionally since the early 80s.  If I DID lift someone elses' work, or even "borrow heavily", I apologize.  I honestly can't remember how and when - or if - I thought it up.  I read a LOT of pulp back then, and something might have soaked in.

I really miss those old pulp mags...Epic, Heavy Metal (still exists, but only as softcore porn for nerds), Galaxy, etc.  It just isn't as much fun reading them online, and the world is a little drabber since they went belly up.

[Jasper]

Yeah I DLed a bunch of Heavy Metal, and the newer stuff seems exactly as you say.  There are even ads for hentai in some of them. 

[Doktor Howl]

Yeah I DLed a bunch of Heavy Metal, and the newer stuff seems exactly as you say.  There are even ads for hentai in some of them. 

Epic and Saga avoided that, and promptly went out of business.

Fucking nerds, can't do ANYTHING right.  Pulp is for zap guns, porn is for teh boobs, etc.