MAMMY MORGAN PLAYED THE ORGAN; HER DADDY BEAT THE DRUM - A Novelette

author : Michael Flynn

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  • Publication: The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF
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  • Publication: The Forest of Time and Other Stories
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    He wrote that the volume might "confuse the issue more than it clarifies it. Most sf readers are likely to come away, as I did, convinced more than ever that hard sf is a fuzzy set —but that it's not this fuzzy.

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    The pleasures of reading hard sf, to be sure, are much in evidence in The Ascent of Wonder , and most of my quibbles come directly from the book's ambitious and misleading subtitle. And certainly the arguments likely to be engendered by the book's odder selections may help to enliven critical debate.

    Samuelson shared reservations, too, judging that "this collection of stories is disorderly and diffuse, trying to serve not only the announced purpose, but others as well, among them a history lesson, a pleading for literary quality which may imply terms antithetical to sf "hardness," and a questioning of the very bases outlined in the introductions that supposedly constitute the subject at hand. Superficially laissez-faire , allowing room for each claimant to hard sf status, its scatter-shot methods of selection and presentation in fact deprecate the real thing, watering it down so much as to virtually destroy any generic consistency.

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    Sometimes, however, the 'hard man against the universe' pose is confused with the hardheaded intellectual honesty and accuracy science demands. Several stories show little pretense that science provides any positive attitudinal bearings at all Neither editorial commentary nor the apparently random sequence of stories helps readers understand what different gradations of "hardness" such departures may represent. Hartwell and Cramer may have no use for distinctions between extrapolation, speculation, and transformation as progressively distancing devices, but something is needed to show their awareness that Clement, Benford and Anderson actually write hard sf, unlike Grant, Hogan, and McCaffrey.

    Without such distinctions, the editors seem to have sold out the very premises on which they say they wanted to please both the hard sf constituency and that of the curious neophytes.

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    The fact that they fit when they do the fall-back position of showing different ways science may function in sf is a weak justification. Hartwell's lame rhetorical ploy, that these texts are "in dialogue with" hard sf, might apply to every story with the slightest pretension to be sf.

    Title: Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum

    The presence of these authors in such numbers is itself an indication that this book honors the "hard sf" appellation more in the breach than in the observance. I am confident that it would have a similar effect on modern youngsters, so rush out and buy six copies And insist that your town and school libraries buy copies, for without this book they can no longer claim an adequate ability to introduce young or old readers to SF.

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