From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad:tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-b!hutch
Newsgroups: net.books
Title: Re: Lessing"s Canopus Series
Article-I.D.: dadla-b.433
Posted: Thu Apr 28 15:30:24 1983
Received: Tue May  3 03:55:37 1983
References: sdccsu3.578


In article sdccsu3.578, Brian Keves continues a discussion that I never
saw the original to, about Ellison.  The gist seems to be that someone
out there said Ellison's work was immoral, and Brian suggests that Ellsion
<- Ellison (sorry, Harlan)  ought not be read if you want to read about
morals and such.

Well, I found "A Boy and His Dog" to be very much a moral treatise, and
similarly "Croatoan" is extremely concerned with morality.

I am not convinced that Ellison has a sound moral sense, but that is another
problem entirely.  It might explain why it is that I find most of the recent
themes he has presented to be just too depressing.  There is only so much of
the well-presented, nicely written angst and misery, that I can take.  This
has unfortunately put me off of Ellison, and I don't know if he has gotten
any better.

Does anyone else share my weariness with the extremely dreary world-view of
Harlan and hsi ilk?

Hutch