Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!LEWIN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA From: LEWIN@CMU-CS-C.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Time Belt, Lost Memory, Tolkien Message-ID: <13248@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 12:06:12 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.13248 Posted: Wed Nov 2 12:06:12 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Nov-83 18:48:41 EST Lines: 21 From: DAVID.LEWIN The story about a young man given a time belt by his uncle is, I believe, David Gerrold's "The Man Who Folded Himself", a novel with ideas similar to some of Heinlein's ("All You Zombies"). In one of Jack Vance's Alastor novels the hero first appears on a planet without his memory and is sent to a work camp. I can't remember the title ("Wyst: Alastor ????" ?). As to Tolkien, I tried reading him in the mid-60s, but found his fanatasy world unreal. Probably because the names (The Shire, etc.), kept dragging me into medieval England. After two books of the four, I gave up and switched to the Epic of Gilgamesh, which I found much more readable. All of which reminds me, does anyone remember a group of novels (not necessar- ily related) by Emil Petaja (?) which were science fiction, but drew on the Kalevala and Irish myths? Are there other authors besides Petaja and Zelasny who have drawn heavily on folklore for SCIENCE FICTION (not fanatsy)? -------