"William Tenn - Null-P" - читать интересную книгу автора (William Tenn)

Well, at least, I said, the story will be noticed. It will be noticed and commented-on everywhere.
It wasn't.
For a long time, there seemed to be only three people in the world who thought "Null-P" a particularly good story: myself, Damon Knight, and August Derleth, who used it in an anthology he edited. Everybody else ignored it. Then, a decade after its first publication, "Null-P" was especially noted by Kingsley Amis in his critical study, New Maps of Hell. Anthology requests began coming in from everywhere and references to it appeared in the most unexpected places. All rightЧmaybe it isn't all that good, but certainly it couldn't have been that bad either for ten long years.
(By the way, Amis said that the satire in "Null-P" did not seem to be aimed at any one in particular. I would have quarreled bitterly with that definitely non-American Brit. By the time New Maps of Hell was published, I damn well knew who I had intended to satirize, who the most mediocre of leaders was. Eisenhower, I would have told him. It was Presiнdent Eisenhower all along, I would have said. Eisenhower, who followed that great presiнdent, Harry S Truman.)
And how do I feel today about the story's never having been submitted to The New Yorker? I feel as my mother would have put it:
"Oy, it's The New Yorker's loss. And The New Yorker's loss is my loss."

Written 1947/ Published 1950