Well, that’s Hollywood for you. In the name of Asimov, we get killer robots.

I like your literary selections. Bradbury’s books were one of the earliest books I can remember when starting out on in my youth, i.e. Something Wicked, Illustrated Man, and so on. Although I had only started reading Lovecraft’s stories just a few nights ago – I have links to all of his works on the Project Gutenberg (Australian) site and that will keep me busy for a long time. Speaking of Ray Bradbury, check out Rachel Bloom’s tribute film to Ray on Youtube Other than that, I’d suggest maybe some Asimov i.e. the Foundation Trilogy as possible reads – I think they had been trying to make a film out of it recently.

My regards for this fine site and interesting blogs. I am not familiar with this site, but definitely looks like interesting reads.

Both .pdf files. Here’s one of them in Japanese (which I can’t read, BTW, but maybe some day).

Then I’d read something in another Tarzan book, or in the exact same book, which seemed to indicate that, in Burroughs’ universe at least, white people are just innately a little bit better than everybody else. Not that there weren’t stupid white folks and smart black folks and such, but in general he seemed to think that whites had a greater potential intelligence, however badly some whites failed to attain such potential. And then he’d have something in there which made it clear that while some individuals, through upbringing or personal hard work, were superior, races are basically all the same. Then we’d get another bit of stereotyped innate ignorance on the part of some black folks.

More than once, I sighed and asked the printed pages in front of me, “So can you make up your mind, Burroughs? Is the white man superior or isn’t he?”