SW10/WWW: Powernaut 1962 #7: Here Come the Reds!

[Scott Eiler]

On 3/20/2013 10:15 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:22:49 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:
>
>> On 3/20/2013 6:13 PM, Andrew Perron wrote:
>>> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:09:29 +0000 (UTC), Scott Eiler wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well then, it's the old argument about generalists vs. specialists.
>>>> Species in a big community have had generations to develop their special
>>>> traits.  In Star Trek, every Vulcan practically has superpowers, albeit
>>>> specialized ones.  It's mostly humans who have to generalize as a species.
>>>
>>> But why is that so consistently true for everyone who's not humans? Even
>>> species who have been in the galactic community for much shorter periods of
>>> time - ones where *we* are the ones initiating first contact?
>>
>> Err, depends what you read.  I fondly remember one short story where the
>> humans discovered a species of herd animal that wrote its own science
>> fiction.  The aliens promptly wrote a story featuring a human character,
>> Climber Pinkskin.  8{D>
>
> Well, I'm complaining about the cliche, not the people who don't use it.
> Them I'm fine with. <3 Who wrote that one?
>
> Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, sounds good!

According to http://www.nesfa.org/Recursion/recursive_T.htm :

Thompson, W.R., "Lost in Translation"

Ray Bennet is hired to translate Kya science fiction from Wideplain into 
English. He travels to Kya to work with the author Gyez. The problem is 
that Roam to Infinity is a piece of hack work; the human character was 
originally an intelligent rodent changed at the last moment to profit 
from the contact with Earth. Bennet prevents a diplomatic contretemps, 
foils an unscrupulous publisher, gets another of Gyez's novels 
Nightscent published, and winds up with his 10%. Note: Kya SF writers 
seem little different from human ones.

Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact 110:14 Mid-December 1990



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