"On.Science.Fiction.History" - читать интересную книгу автора (Smith Clark Ashton)

Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan is perhaps the most salient from a
literary perspective. It is a gorgeous and sumptuous satire on the results of
self-achieved immortality. Leonard Cline's The Dark Chamber could be mentioned,
too, since it depicts with singular power the retrogression of a human being to
the primal slime. Incidentally, one ought to mention Lucian's True History, for
it contains what is probably the first inter- planetary tale, a fantastic
account of a voyage to the moon. And sometimes I suspect that Freud should be
included among the modern masters of science-fiction! But one could multiply
titles without adding anything of permanent literary value and significance.


[Originally from: Arkham Sampler, Spring 1949. This version from: Planets and
Dimensions, Ed. Charles K Wolfe. Mirage Press 1973.]