In Search of Wonder by Knight Damon

Author:Knight, Damon [Damon, Knight,]
Language: ita
Format: epub
Published: 2011-01-26T23:00:00+00:00

Kornbluth must have been born with a lexicon in his mouth. Legend has it that once, when a motherly stranger bent over him in his perambulator and made the sounds that are usually made to babies, Kornbluth remarked, “Madam, I am not the child you think me.” At any rate, he was about sixteen, and looked a prematurely aging twenty-six, when he wrote “The Words of Guru,” a short fantasy which, for my money, deserves the place in the literature generally assigned to something by Dunsany.

Today, heavier than ever (and looking about as much like his jacket photo as an owl like an owlet), he is not only writing first-rate science fiction but getting paid accordingly—a factor which, like it or not, makes all the difference between promise and fulfillment. His first novel was Mars Child, written in collaboration with Judith Merril; his second, Gunner Cade, also with Miss Merril; his third, The Space Merchants (“Gravy Planet”), with Frederik Pohl. All three, judging by style and manner, were at least three-quarters Kornbluth [This is probably unfair. A more recent novel on which Pohl and another writer collaborated seems to me full of the distinctive flavor of The Space Merchants.]; each was better than the last; but none of them has one-half the stature of Takeoff.

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