We value "How To Be Ethnic..." for its snapshot of daily life on Earth in the Solar Commonwealth and After Doomsday for its unique background of the multi-species civilization-clusters. We wish that both works had been longer than they are but also find that they can be revisited and re-mined for yet more colorful and imaginative details.
Imagine a Technic History including multiple volumes of short stories presenting daily life in the future, like the first part of Heinlein's Future History, and also a series of novels set in the civilization-clusters scenario of After Doomsday.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I dunno, while I have some sympathy for your wish to see more stories showing us daily life in either the Technic series or AFTER DOOMSDAY, I have my doubts many readers would find them interesting. I mean science fictional stories showing us ONLY how people lived their every day lives and what they did would seem rather dull. Finding out the details of how people got up from bed, what they wore, had for breakfast, what kinds of jobs or occupations they had, fretting about bills or traffic congestion, and so on wont, I believe, interest that many readers. What makes many stories, science fiction or not, INTERESTING is when the characters have to cope with problems and conflicts NOT part of their everyday lives.
Not that I object to some mention of how characters lived the every day details of their lives sometimes. We get some glimpses of how Dominic Flandry lived when he was at home in Archopolis in A STONE IN HEAVEN. But stories ONLY about ordinary, everyday life won't appeal that much to many readers.
Sean
Sean,
Personal dramas like those in THE GREEN HILLS OF EARTH or "How To Be Ethnic..." would suffice.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
That I can agree with!
Sean
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