Re: 1953--the greatest year in sf history; now wait for next year

From: dwayne (dwayne@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Mar 28 2002 - 21:52:30 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Or maybe it was 1952. A spectacular number of pivotal sf stories appeared
> in 1953, presumably written in the year before. According to my patented
> 50-year two-generation recurrence-with-modal-variation theory of cultural
> history,* we're due for another gamma burst next year... which implies that
> a batch of mindzingers is being created even as we speak.

Naaaah, it was the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II

We'll have to wait for Charles to be Sovereign before we get a crop like that
again.

Dwayne



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