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Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)

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From: "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seaw...@sgeinc.invalid.com>

Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:11:04 -0400

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Subject: Re: Poll query: what was the first scifi or fantasy book you read?

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Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <olov649u8pdvs2m2odon04s0pbb6b0u...@4ax.com>,
> Rich Horton <rrhor...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 17:22:35 GMT, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
>> wrote:
> [Dr. Doolittle]

>>> Well, I thought they were good. The books, that is --- though
>>> the Rex Harrison film wasn't so bad IMO. But a friend of mine,
>>> when the books were mentioned (this was around 1970) said that
>>> they were horrible, bigoted, biased *anti-Russian* diatribes.
>>> Now, I don't remember anything about Russians in the books at
>>> all. But it's been years. Can anyone remember?
>> Anti-Russian? Makes no sense to me at all.

> Me neither, but that's what she *said*.

There were, I believe, references to "Bolshevist conspiracies" (along
with anarchists) in at least one of the books.

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