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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Books About Aliens Who Are Fed Up With Humans
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 04:41:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:05:14 +0000, James Nicoll wrote:

> Five Books About Aliens Who Are Fed Up With Humans
> 
> Yelling "Get off my lawn!" on an interplanetary scale...

Yes, your reaction to "The Turning Place" is wrong. Humans matter
in a way that other forms of life on Earth do not.

The final two novels, in which it's humanity that is at fault,
particularly the second-last one, do not sound interesting to
me because of their distressingly un-Campbellian nature.

Not that I approve of John W. Campbell's straitjacket for science
fiction, but stories can go too far in the opposite direction.

John Savard