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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Tears) Mutant by Henry Kuttner & C L Moore
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:22:25 -0500
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On 11/11/24 1:45 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <lpf16oF2kstU1@mid.individual.net>,
> Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>> In article <robertaw-7E8ABC.10115911112024@news.individual.net>,
>> Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
>>> In article <lperdhF1tglU2@mid.individual.net>,
>>> ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <vgta58$11om5$3@dont-email.me>,
>>>> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 11/10/24 8:59 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>>> Mutant by Henry Kuttner & C L Moore
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Given time, the Baldies will peacefully supplant Homo Sapiens. Time
>>>>>> is something the Baldies may not have.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/drink-to-the-course-of-evolution
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh my - mentally preparing for Hogbens would make for some interesting
>>>>> whiplash when reading just about anything else.
>>>>>
>>>>> After reading your fine review, I have been puzzled over why Mutant
>>>>> doesn't seem familiar. After a search through the letter K[1] in my
>>>>> collection, it's clearly because I've never read any of the Baldy
>>>>> stories. Ha!
>>>>>
>>>>> Which I will remedy when I get the opportunity.
>>>>> Tony
>>>>> [1] and M, and O, and P, of course
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you liked the Hogbens, I believe Leinster wrote a somewhat similar
>>>> series of stories about a rural gas-station owner, technical savant..
>>>
>>> ?! I have read a good deal of Leinster, but I don't remember seeing any
>>> stories like that. Now there was a long running series of stories in
>>> Popular Science about a "Model Garage" whose owner (Gus Wilson) was
>>> really good at fixing automobiles, but the best I can tell, the "author"
>>> of the stories was a house name.
>>>
>>
>> No I recall the "Model Garage" stories, and this was definitely not them.
>>
>> However looking at isfdb, I don't see any likely titles, so perhaps I'm
>> wrong and this is a YASID.
>>
>> As I recall the premise, our narrator was a guy who solved technical
>> problems for a living, and he discovered there was this other guy with an
>> auto-shop/gas station/garage somewhere out in the country who was too
>> lazy to fix things the normal way and could solve any technical problem
>> without realizing it as impossible.  I think one example was an engine
>> that had seized up, and he did something with a battery that neutralized
>> all friction inside the mechanism to get it going again.  I believe
>> there were several stories, and the narrator would bring him problems
>> without indicating that they were important and that nobody else had
>> any idea what to do.
>>
>> If that wasn't Leinster, I'd like to know who it was...
>> -- 
> 
> No, wait a second.  It looks like it's the stories in: _Out Of This World_
> 
> 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_This_World_(Leinster_book)

Interesting - I'd never heard of these. They sound like one way to blend 
Gallegher and the Hogbens.

Tony