And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Poul Anderson, one of the great sci fi writers of the pre-New Wave tradition. The old sci fi, Azimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, was optimistic. The New Wave, which still dominates the genre, was/is dystopian, pessimistic, and just about everything else bad.
Loved Ace Doubles in my science fiction-reading days!
ReplyDeletePoul Anderson, one of the great sci fi writers of the pre-New Wave tradition. The old sci fi, Azimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, was optimistic. The New Wave, which still dominates the genre, was/is dystopian, pessimistic, and just about everything else bad.
ReplyDeleteIs that an alien in the box? Smoking a pipe?? I obviously need another toke…
ReplyDeleteIf you want to read it, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L4pF4OHt_UjYrp0SBcbCiB9b8XnRt9xn/view
ReplyDeleteOSHA would never allow such a vehicle. No airbag.
ReplyDeleteGotta wonder if that was part of the inspiration for the old Andy Griffith "Salvage 1" tv show
ReplyDeleteOriginal copy on my shelf.
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