The Seeds of Time: Classic Science Fiction

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A very short exploration of the relationship between humans, domestic AI robots, and the differences between them. Light horror.

I enjoyed Wyndham's Day of the Triffids immensely, finding his wry sense of humor quite fitting (and refreshing!) with his mid-20th century tales to astonish. These shorter tales exude more of the same dry wit and an excellent foreword by the author lays out his reasoning for his quirky approach to science fiction. Time to Rest": the somber tale of an Earthman stranded on Mars with Martians after the destruction of the Earth. Does (assumed) low intelligence ever justify secondary treatment, especially if the individual is not human?Pillar to Post" An amputee gets body swapped with an explorer from a future and decides he likes having legs.

A twee story, unlike the others. Felicity Fray is a teacher who loves nature in a way that reminds me of Wodehouse’s Madeleine Bassett who thinks “the stars are God's daisy-chain”, but without the charm or clever plots. The Dumb Martian, is about a chauvinistic and venal outpost worker, Duncan who buys a wife, a Martian woman, Lellie, for the duration of his isolated stint. In fact what he bought is a slave, but he has neither the humanity nor the perspicacity to realise that belying her passivity and apparent limited emotional intelligence she is unhappy at her treatment, capable of learning, much to Duncan’s disquiet and unhappily for him, practical and strategic in responding to her tormentor. This scenario could have been placed on Earth with identical protagonists. Lellie does not have to be a Martian, but the planetary setting makes the story bright and clear. If the woman in this story weren't a Martian (and I think she was a human but of a multi-generation Martian lineage), the story would just be a cautionary tale against domestic abuse.A collection of short sci-fi stories, covering all kinds of things - time travel, body swapping, space racism, interplanetary colonization etc etc There are serious, satirical, and outright comic examples of travelling to another place or time, sometimes with the intention of settling there. Wyndham is clearly against the historical human pattern of dominating and enslaving or obliterating those already there and was perhaps a multiculturalist before the word was coined:

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There’s a natural dumbness about Marts… They kind of non-register… Kind of like a half-robot, and dumb at that; certainly no fun.” This collection, originally published in 1956, brings together ten stories, ranging from comedy to horror, with touches of romance and occasionally social commentary built in. There’s no real common theme – this is a collection where each story is individual rather than being part of a greater whole. But most of the stories are more than strong enough to stand alone and even the weaker ones are well worth reading. Wyndham is a great storyteller and the variety in this book allows him to show off his impressive versatility.The Seeds of Time is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer John Wyndham, published in 1956 by Michael Joseph. The title is presumably from Macbeth, Act I Scene III. There are some time travel tales, stories about the painfulness of adjusting to life in a far off place, when someone is away so long it might not be worthwhile returning home, intergalactic visitors and the perils of giving birth in space. The Seeds of Time is an expanded version of Fredric Jameson’s 1991 Wellek Library Lecture series at the University of California, Irvine. In it, he takes current discussions of postmodernity to the cutting edge. Moving on from his definitive study Postmodernism; or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson in this next book surveys the limits in our current thinking about what Utopia, totality, innovation, feasible socialism, Second-World culture, architectural incommensurability, and Critical Regionalism might mean in the 1990s and beyond. If you travel time in your craft, you need to be sure you have fuel for the return trip, but what are the possible consequences if it stays behind?