{"id":543,"date":"2007-01-04T01:08:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=543"},"modified":"2018-08-19T07:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:52:20","slug":"eric-frank-russell-somewhere-a-voice-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"(Eric Frank Russell) Somewhere, A Voice [collection]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/07-01-04-READ-Eric-Frank-Russell-Somewhere-A-Voice-collection.jpg\" alt=\"07-01-04 READ (Eric Frank Russell) Somewhere, A Voice [collection]\" width=\"164\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/07-01-04-READ-Eric-Frank-Russell-Somewhere-A-Voice-collection.jpg 833w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/07-01-04-READ-Eric-Frank-Russell-Somewhere-A-Voice-collection-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/07-01-04-READ-Eric-Frank-Russell-Somewhere-A-Voice-collection-768x1178.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/07-01-04-READ-Eric-Frank-Russell-Somewhere-A-Voice-collection-667x1024.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 164px) 100vw, 164px\"><\/a>Most of these sto\u00adries, writ\u00adten between 1948 and 1955, have worn out with time. The title sto\u00adry, for instance, is a para\u00adble to teach racial tol\u00ader\u00adance that now just seems corny, though I\u2019m sure it had an impact when it was writ\u00adten. But the sec\u00adond last sto\u00adry, \u201cDear Dev\u00adil\u201d still holds up well. I read it when I was a child, got intense plea\u00adsure from it, and nev\u00ader for\u00adgot its details. <span id=\"more-543\"><\/span>It takes place on an Earth long after a nuclear war, where a few humans strug\u00adgle to sur\u00advive. An alien poet, who is strand\u00aded on Earth, befriends a human boy, and helps him find hope and mean\u00ading in life. Rus\u00adsell rose above his usu\u00adal pulp style to write this, and the emo\u00adtional end\u00ading is superb. You can see this sto\u00adry as the prin\u00adci\u00adple inspi\u00adra\u00adtion for Edgar Pangborn\u2019s lat\u00ader <em>A Mir\u00adror For Observers<\/em> (1954) and <em>Davy<\/em> (1964), which employ some of the same ele\u00adments, and have the same mood and atti\u00adtude. There is also some resem\u00adb\u00adlence to George R. Stuart\u2019s <em>Earth Abides<\/em>, pub\u00adlished a year before. All these sto\u00adries share the same con\u00adcerns, and the same human\u00adis\u00adtic impulse to find some sort of bal\u00adance between youth and age, free\u00addom and respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adity, cyn\u00adi\u00adcism and hope. \u201cDear Dev\u00adil\u201d was often anthol\u00ado\u00adgized, so if you can\u2019t find this old Ace col\u00adlec\u00adtion of Russell\u2019s work, you should be able to dig it up in some the\u00admatic or \u201cbest of\u201d anthol\u00adogy. Make the effort.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">con\u00adtains:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">14900. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) Some\u00adwhere A Voice [sto\u00adry<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 14901. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) U\u2011Turn [sto\u00adry]<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 14902. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) Seat of Obliv\u00adion [sto\u00adry]<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 14903. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) Tieline [sto\u00adry]<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> 14904. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) Dis\u00adplaced Per\u00adson [sto\u00adry]<br> 14905. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) Dear Dev\u00adil [sto\u00adry]<br> 14906. [2] (Eric Frank Rus\u00adsell) I Am Noth\u00ading [sto\u00adry]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of these sto\u00adries, writ\u00adten between 1948 and 1955, have worn out with time. The title sto\u00adry, for instance, is a para\u00adble to teach racial tol\u00ader\u00adance that now just seems corny, though I\u2019m sure it had an impact when&nbsp;it&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=543\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bt-reading-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}