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Title: The Man Who Grew Young by Daniel Quinn, Tim Eldred ISBN: 1-893956-17-2 Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Man Who _Never_ Grew Young...
Comment: ...
...is the name of an sf short story from 1947 by Fritz Leiber. The premise and some of the details are so close to what is in Quinn's book, that it amazes me to see no comments comparing them, especially in the "editorial" reviews. I would call it plagiarism, conscious or unconcious, but I don't know if Daniel Quinn ever read or heard of the story. It seems just as likely that he never read it, because a concious plagiarist would have changed MORE of it! Sorry to say, the Leiber version's ending and philosophy are more thought-provoking than Quinn's.
It is a great story, and not rare or hard to find. Here are some or all of the places it was published:
Night's Black Agents, Arkham, 1947, 1961,1978
The Dark Side, ed. Damon Knight, Doubleday, 1965
The Best of Fritz Leiber, Nelson Doubleday, 1974, 1997
Beyond Reality, ed. Terry Carr, Elsvier/Nelson, 1979
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction, ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1980
Rating: 3
Summary: Wow, a little bizarre but pretty cool!
Comment: This is a very unusual story to come across in a comic book, though the plot itself has of course been done before, especially in a sci-fi book.
This story is all about a man who lives in the world where things go "backwards" all the way from the modern times to the untamed prehistory, yet people seem to take it as the normal way. In fact, those characters have NEVER ever heard of "death", especially since all babies go back into their mother's wombs at the "end" of their lives. (Isn't that a romantic notion?)
The man is the "odd" one out, since he doesn't have a mother anywhere to return to her womb. So he goes on a guest that lasts many thousands of years before he finally finds the "answer". And he encounters many interesting people along the way, like women "without" husbands, wise old men who pass along wisdom, and families that come and go. Very nice artwork with more than a touch of realism in it - no muscular superheroes or beautiful women, sorry.
Rating: 5
Summary: Vivid, Imaginative, Important
Comment: Reading this book will provoke what the Situationists called detournement - a perspective-jarring tournabout in your life. What creativity! Here Quinn inverts time, and thus we see the unmaking or withering of civilization - an amazing sight to behold for those who feel trapped in the concretized, strip-mall-exuding whirligig we all know as the modern NOW! Discover the origins of humanity and the meaning of life by living it BACKWARDS. Couldn't put the books down. Will cherish and share it with friends, family and students alike. Another slam dunk for Quinn.
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Title: The Holy by Daniel Quinn ISBN: 189395630X Publisher: Context Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Beyond Civilization : Humanity's Next Great Adventure by Daniel Quinn ISBN: 0609805363 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Providence by Daniel Quinn ISBN: 0553375490 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn ISBN: 0553375407 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn ISBN: 0553379658 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 06 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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