Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!boyajian%akov68.DEC From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: Comments on Colin Wilson Message-ID: <2783@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 03:28:45 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2783 Posted: Thu Jul 18 03:28:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 12:44:55 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 34 From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (JERRY BOYAJIAN) > From: Chris Jarocha-Ernst > Of the three works Mark mentioned, I would agree that THE SPACE VAMPIRES > is the weakest. Then I have some good reading ahead of me. I first read THE SPACE VAMPIRES when it first came out in hardcover in 1976, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I just re-read it after seeing LIFEFORCE and *still* enjoyed it. I've had his other two novels for years, but never got around to reading them. I'll try and work them into my reading schedule sometime soon. > While he plays fast-and-loose with the Cthulhu Mythos, he certainly uses > it in interesting ways. And, Mark, if you like stories where magic is > revealed to be unexplained science, you should look up "The Return of the > Lloigor" in TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS. Again, it plays fast-and-loose, > but Derleth thought it good enough to include in that collection (even if > it does "reinterpret" one of his own Mythos additions, Lloigor), and it > is in some sense a forerunner of MIND PARASITES. Actually, THE SPACE VAMPIRES is also a "fast-and-loose" Mythos story. The vampires called themselves the Ubbo-Sathla, which was a contribution to the Mythos by Clark Ashton Smith. Wilson's usage wasn't quite what Smith had in mind, but... --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA <"Bibliography is my business">