"Gordon R. Dickson - Future love" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dickson Gordon R)

anyone could write. It was not, of course, really necessary to learn a system to do
this. Anyone could reduce a plot to its components of character, situation,
problem and resolution:

CHARACTER: A young man, SITUATION: Sure that his father has been
murdered by his mother and the man she afterwards married,

PROBLEM: Is determined to make the murderers admit what they have done.
SOLUTION: He hits on the mechanism of having the murderers watch a
reenactment of their crime so that, while seeing what they have done being
performed, they betray themselves.

An excellent narrative plan, at base. The only problem is that it requires someone
who is already a skillful writer to make the emerging story both memorable and
effective, as William Shakespeare did with Hamlet.

The truth of the matter has always been that the genius of story-making lies in the
individual writer and in his or her special use of the material chosen, not in the
material itself. The same idea becomes two different stories when filtered through
the minds of two different writers. Within the covers of this book are stories by
three writers, all dealing with the theme of human love. But the fact that their
theme is the same only emphasizes the diversity of creativity and invention of the
writers themselvesтАФwhich is the important element.

Anne McCaffrey, who is probably well known to most readers of this book,
examines in her story a mother love that goes beyond the physical, in a new and
different sense of that phrase; a sense, in fact, not possible until present-day

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medical technology gave us the means of realizing it. The particular gift of Anne
McCaffrey is that she can infuse such an intense human light and warmth into a
hitherto-unknown, laboratory-cold subject that it takes on the familiar, common
quality of our everyday readerly lives.

Joan Holly, who has also been writing SF successfully for years, deals with a
different kind of parent-child pattern. Again there is a love situation emerging out
of a relationship which would have been impossible before present-day science
gave it to us as something that could happen. But here again, through Joan Holly's
creativity, we have an intense, swift-running story, like a landslide channeled
between canyon walls so deep they almost shut out the light.

Jeffrey Carver goes one step beyond the interaction of ordinary human love. He
plunges the reader into a small whirlpool of individual lives, carried along with
the rushing current of power, plunging ever more swiftly toward the brink of a
waterfall. Here, the love is not between human and human, but between human
and something elseтАФa love that in the end betrays.