Rick Raphael (1919–1994)
Autor de Code Three
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de Rick Raphael
The Thirst Quenchers 7 copias
Once A Cop [short story] 5 copias
The Mailman Cometh [novelette] 1 copia
Guttersnipe [novelette] 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960's (The Mammoth Book Series) (1991) — Autor — 60 copias
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction: Vol. LXXI, No. 2 (April 1963) (1963) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction: Vol. LXXIII, No. 3 (May 1964) (1964) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction: Vol. LXXIV, No. 3 (November 1964) (1964) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction: Vol. LXXIV, No. 6 (February 1965) (1965) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction: Vol. LXXII, No. 1 (September 1963) (1963) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Raphael, Rick
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1919-02-20
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1994-01-04
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Golden Valley, Minnesota, USA
- Ocupaciones
- Journalist
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- También por
- 14
- Miembros
- 184
- Popularidad
- #117,736
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 21
The other two stories are less successful. In The Mailman Cometh, two employees of the Galactic Postal Service struggle with overwork and an under-resourced space station mail sorting outpost, using technology that seems completely outdated - automated spacecraft carrying written mail on microfilm. Their slobby bachelor existence is interrupted by the arrival of an interloper - a woman. This aspect of the story is equally completely outdated, even though the woman in question turns out to be in the same competent mode as other of Raphael's characters; she just finds it convenient to hide that fact in order to conceal her true purpose. If I say that modern sensibilities are likely to find this story unsatisfactory, you must understand that by "modern", I mean "any viewpoints rooted in a time since the late 1960s", and this story dates from 1965... The combination of outdated views and old tech makes this a difficult story to take seriously.
The final story, Odd Man In returns to the world of the first two stories, but looks at the conflict between the last old-time rancher and the US National Parks Service. National Parks are seen as essential safety valves for the huddled urban masses; but through bureaucratic oversight, one rancher avoided being bought up when land was effectively nationalised. For all that Raphael's other stories show technically competent bureaucracies, the Parks Service here is a typical caricature of an overwhelming, hidebound bureaucracy trying to roll over the hardy, down-to-earth individual. Oddly though, the resolution is brokered by an honest, if manipulative, politician back East. That probably stretches our credulity nowadays more than anything else. What seemed like a radical compromise solution in 1965 would probably have been the starting point in our modern world, but then there would have been no story. If Raphael had been trying for a political angle to this story, it would have been an example of "Government bad, individual good"; but instead, a compromise is reached, even if the bureaucracy has to be forced to consider it. In the end it is the political system that delivers the solution in concert with the individual.
A interesting collection then, but not without its faults. Some leeway has to be given for the attitudes of the times, but when those mount up too high, as in The Mailman Cometh, the result is too much.… (más)