as far as reading goes for me, during high school there was a lapse of about 2-4 years where i didn't read anything (until i read niven, or at least the first...
Daniel Stephens
vyvian@...
May 1, 1999 8:27 am
7847
Larry Niven admits to the possibility that he stole the plot and basic structure of The Wizard of Oz to write _Ringworld_. (He says that to him at the time, it...
Fry, Carrol
cfry@...
May 4, 1999 2:44 pm
7848
. I think that so many stories, a significant proportion of them good, have now been told of the imagined future that at least a few real future occurrences...
Fry, Carrol
cfry@...
May 4, 1999 2:46 pm
7849
. ... What a sad condition to be in - even when I was a student the percentage of books I read that I was assigned to read by a teacher was vanishingly small,...
Fry, Carrol
cfry@...
May 4, 1999 4:03 pm
7850
... Also sounds like The Time Machine. Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of any organisations, nations, species, or schools of thought...
Hibbs, Philip
philip.hibbs@...
May 4, 1999 4:56 pm
7851
Are you sure it wasn't called "The Marching Morons"? I've never read it, but I heard it spoken of on the SubGenius' Hour of Slack. Would like to know the ...
Dblspace@...
May 4, 1999 5:44 pm
7852
... Except that in "Little Black Bag," nobody knew what the morons tasted like in a sandwich... ;-) ...
Steve Sloan
ssloan@...
May 4, 1999 6:46 pm
7853
I believe the author was Cyril Kornbluth, who died long long ago (in a galaxy close at hand, though)...
Arun Menon
amenon@...
May 4, 1999 6:46 pm
7854
You're both right. The Little Black Bag" and "The Marching Morons" were written by C. M. Kornbluth, and dealt with a future society that was the result of...
Steve Ellis
sellis@...
May 4, 1999 6:47 pm
7855
... I don't remember the name of the author (Cyril Kornbluth, maybe?), but IIRC, "The Marching Morons" was a sequel to "Little Black Bag." (I'm sure *one* of...
Steve Sloan
ssloan@...
May 4, 1999 6:49 pm
7856
Are you sure it wasn't called "The Marching Morons"? I've never read it, but I heard it spoken of on the SubGenius' Hour of Slack. Would like to know the ...
Fry, Carrol
cfry@...
May 4, 1999 8:11 pm
7857
... My copy only has "Little Black Bag", IIRC. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan...
Steve Sloan
ssloan@...
May 4, 1999 9:12 pm
7858
... By sheer coincidence (of course) this thread has actually strayed on-topic to the works of Niven... Larry Niven and Issac Asimov wrote a "dual essay" about...
Lunatic E'sex
lunatic@...
May 4, 1999 10:00 pm
7859
I'm not sure anymore as it has been a number of years since I read it, but I think "The Marching Mororns" is in Asimov's "Before the Golden Age." If not, then...
Akin, George D. Lt Col
AkinG@...
May 4, 1999 10:44 pm
7860
I'd have to agree with Asimov, because I've noticed that increased female literacy/education and women empowerment leads to an automatic drop in population...
Arun Menon
amenon@...
May 4, 1999 10:45 pm
7861
I'd have to agree with Asimov, because I've noticed that increased female literacy/education and women empowerment leads to an automatic drop in population...
Arun Menon
amenon@...
May 4, 1999 11:41 pm
7862
... with the ... It isnt the ... because ... are ... infaniticide ... [snip other stuff] I remember about population growth only what people told me in school:...
Ingo Kock
ingo@...
May 5, 1999 12:23 am
7863
Few of my friends want to have more than one kid..I dont think this is because they are more intelligent than some subsistence farmer, but because they are ...
Fry, Carrol
cfry@...
May 5, 1999 1:35 pm
7864
... because ... There are lots of reasons for this phenomenon. One is not wanting to expend the effort of raising more than one, and wanting to maintain a ...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 5, 1999 4:28 pm
7865
<<< I'll cut this off. But isn't it interesting that in the midst of this huge population growth, the farm economy in the U. S. is in the crapper because of...
Allan Pratt
apratt@...
May 5, 1999 10:43 pm
7866
I'm thinking that the "plot" of Bordered in Black could be seen as a sort of commentary on overpopulation. That scene at the end - have you ever wondered if...
Dblspace@...
May 6, 1999 6:00 am
7867
... Now THERE'S a Niven fan!! Jerry WHO?? Oh, who cares! ... This was a little like the situation in Asimov's famous "Nightfall". However, there were cogent...
Edwin A. Scribner
krenon@...
May 6, 1999 6:42 am
7868
... LOL! That would be Jerry Pournelle, the other half of the most successful writing team in at least the history of science fiction. ... Thanks for bringing...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 6, 1999 6:43 am
7869
... That's "Thanks for bringing US back on topic." Carol http://www.ghg.net/redflame ...
Carol Phillips
redflame@...
May 6, 1999 7:24 am
7870
The Mote in God's Eye by niven and i forgot who else has a study on over population, although it was in a completly alien society, In The Mote In God's Eye and...
Daniel Stephens
vyvian@...
May 6, 1999 7:57 am
7871
... See _The Moon is a Harsh Mistress_ by Heinlein for an example of a few of these. Also, the U.S. expansion into the west of North America gives some...
Lunatic E'sex
lunatic@...
May 6, 1999 7:58 am
7872
... The Larry Niven and Issac Asimov piece titled "On the Marching Morons" is on pp. 111-118 of the 19 Jan 81 issue of Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine....
Lunatic E'sex
lunatic@...
May 6, 1999 7:59 am
7873
Another great example of overpopulation in Niven's works is the "Mother hunts" in the Gil the ARM stories. Heck Teela Brown was created as a direct result of...
David A. Newcomb
newk@...
May 6, 1999 9:22 am
7874
... advance ... opened ... Some say our predecessors did the same thing, underneath the sphinx. Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of...
Hibbs, Philip
philip.hibbs@...
May 6, 1999 10:29 am
7875
... I recall that when the humans arrived in the Motie system they examined a number of asteroids on their way in, and found that they had all been completely...
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