----- Original Message ----- From: "leaking pen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> have you read the book midas world? Right-on....talk about prescient, if you can stand the quirkiness ... Pohl was undoubtedly the inspiration for the comedy writers of Seinfeld (just a guess), with his "reductio ad absurdum" of nearly every American negative trend or whim - he spotted "super-size-it" 30 years before Madison Ave got hold of the idea .... and wrote about an inverted energy crisis in "The Midas Plague" ... in the early fifties, but yet there is something in his writing that doesn't appeal to everyone's "satisfaction circuits"... kind of the same thing that turns-off some readers (not me) to the writing of PKD... you know, the 100 pages of pulp per week turned out to pay the rent (in the days before spell-checkers and good editors) all for the few bucks per page from the (former)cheapskates at Astounding/Analog. BTW my spell checker caught this one, but I had originally spelled "Astounding" as "Asstounding"
