tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post3566590261144933636..comments2024-03-26T20:28:47.677-04:00Comments on Tellers of Weird Tales: From Things To Come into The Space Trilogy-An AsideTerence E. Hanleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-76675195611565195312020-01-17T08:51:38.647-05:002020-01-17T08:51:38.647-05:00Hi, Randy,
I guess we should remember, too, who i...Hi, Randy,<br /><br />I guess we should remember, too, who is the revealed Number 1. Anyway, people now report themselves and flog themselves for their own transgressions. They retract their own statements and repent. Sometimes they are allowed back into society. Other times they have to wait out a period of being outcast.<br /><br />I have never read The Wanting Seed, but I'll put it on my list, as I'm always on the lookout for dystopian fiction.<br /><br />Thanks for writing.<br /><br />THTerence E. Hanleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08268641371264950572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3852401976091776228.post-13430607326535786472020-01-14T23:30:54.028-05:002020-01-14T23:30:54.028-05:00Your last line reminds me of a Prisoner episode wi...Your last line reminds me of a Prisoner episode with the usual battle between Number 6 and Number 2 concluded with the Patrick McGoohan convincing his superior he is a traitor: "I'm not going to report you. You're going to report yourself.<br /><br />I've never read 1985. I did write about another Burgess dystopia, The Wanting Seed, at https://marzaat.wordpress.com/2018/12/23/the-wanting-seed/. It also looks at the place of love and procreation under an authoritarian state.Randy Staffordhttp://marzaat.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com