Re: A Vintage from Allantis
Posted by:
weorcstan (IP Logged)
Date: 9 December, 2007 12:50AM
I think that as CAS would rather describe phantasmagoric scenes than explain in a nuts and bolts manner how things happen, he was a bit perturbed when “scientific†explanations were required. Maybe I'm wrong, but a feel that he therefore made his “explanations†as absurd as possible as a bit of a joke. I sort of imagine him laughing when, for example, an editor accepted his idea that a time machine worked because it was powered by something that looked like a giant hourglass. Actually, I enjoy reading his ridiculous sci-fi terms as he seems to be saying “to heck with this providing real life explanations for the fantastic.â€
Boyd Wrote:
> His Sci-Fi is painful, most of it back then was
> but the randomly joining together of terms to
> recreate the laws of physics grates somewhat.