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(Tears) Mutant by Henry Kuttner & C L Moore
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James Nicoll
2024-11-10 13:59:36 UTC
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Mutant by Henry Kuttner & C L Moore

Given time, the Baldies will peacefully supplant Homo Sapiens. Time
is something the Baldies may not have.

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Tony Nance
2024-11-11 16:08:07 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2024-11-11 16:58:25 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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..
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Robert Woodward
2024-11-11 18:11:59 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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.
--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2024-11-11 18:37:12 UTC
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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...
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What's not in Columbia anymore..
Ted Nolan <tednolan>
2024-11-11 18:45:44 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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)
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What's not in Columbia anymore..
Robert Woodward
2024-11-12 17:48:02 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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)
(checks the ISFDB) I have never read the Bud Gregory stories which is
why I didn't recognize your description.
--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
‹-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward ***@drizzle.com
Tony Nance
2024-11-14 01:22:25 UTC
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Post by James Nicoll
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

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