Re: CHAT: Back on the list; Anti-conlanging bigots
| From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 7, 2001, 22:08 |
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On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 10:45 , David Peterson wrote:
> In a message dated 12/6/01 8:17:22 PM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
>
> << Is
> "Pinnochio" another piece of science fiction? >>
>
> You know, Pinnochio: The little puppet whose nose grows long when he
> lies? It's an old Italian allegory. I've been dying to read the
> original.
Well, yes; but the author was listed as Stanley Schmidt, who most
certainly does *not* sound like an old Italian. And actually, I was right:
http://www.sfsite.com/isfdb-bin/pwork.cgi?724e3c
It *was* the same Stanley Schmidt who edits _Analog_ (a science fiction
magazine), and would therefore have been a science fiction novelette
(published in _Analog_ in 1978). I'd love to see this novelette, though;
it probably is based on the Italian tale, but I'm curious as to what
Schmidt did with it sf-wise.
Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
http://pegasus.cityofveils.com
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