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The zoo ship recalls Superman for three reasons:
(i) he had an alien zoo and Anderson's Captain Torrance refers to "'...Luna City Zoo.'" (p. 572);
(ii) one of Superman's villains collected not individual organisms but miniaturized, bottled, inhabited cities;
(iii) in another story, a spaceship fired a duplication ray at a planetary
Although Poul Anderson's Technic History is better written either than Star Trek or than most Superman scripts, all are sf so that conceptual comparisons are appropriate.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteMiniaturizing and bottling inhabited cities is a rather hard concept to swallow!
Sean