>On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Don D'Ammassa wrote:
>>
>> >I've been rereading Murray Leinster for the last couple of weeks and
>> >discovered something I had never noticed when I first read him back in the
>> >1960's. The chauvinism I had expected, but the xenophobia is surprisingly
>> >strong. In most of his interplanetary stories, there are no other
>> >intelligent races at all. When they do make an appearnance, they are almost
>> >inevitably hostile.
>
>How much of this do you think represents John W. Campbell's
>demands/influence?
>
Very little. Most of the stories didn't appear in Astounding. And
Campbell's attitude seemed to be that aliens were inferior, that people were
"the toughest kid on the block". Leinster's attitude is more that aliens
are abominations to be exterminated.
---Don D'Ammassa ([log in to unmask])
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