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cthulu2016

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1. Pert of the reason Stars My Destination isn't dated is

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Mon Apr 2, 2012, 11:52 PM

Apr 2012

that it's an early instance of a kind of expressionist/absurdist/surreal/satirical modern sort of SF novel... very similar to SIRENS OF TITAN or anything by Phillip K. Dick, etc..

That post-beat genre style has held up very well. I find a lot of genre works from 1955-1965 (including mysteries) as being more modern than much of what followed.

Was noticing how when mad men moved from 1964 to 1965-66 the whole material culture turned from timeless modern to just clownish.

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