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| 921.1 | The book exists, and it's not _Job_ | MINAR::BISHOP | | Tue Oct 02 1990 10:30 | 5 |
| I've read it, so it exists, but I can't remember title or author.
I seem to remember it was a 50's or early 60's era book.
-John Bishop
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| 921.2 | sounds familiar but my shelves are miles away... | HEFTY::CHARBONND | scorn to trade my place | Tue Oct 02 1990 14:46 | 1 |
| I thought it was a short story by Theodore Sturgeon
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| 921.3 | | NEWOA::BAILEY | life below 4,000 revs | Wed Oct 03 1990 07:07 | 13 |
| <<< Note 921.2 by HEFTY::CHARBONND "scorn to trade my place" >>>
-< sounds familiar but my shelves are miles away... >-
> I thought it was a short story by Theodore Sturgeon
I think there's a short story by Eric Frank Russel (sp)
(its in the collection "somewhere a voice") which treats Satan
as a displaced revolutionary
I'll check tonight
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| 921.4 | It's a popular theme | MINAR::BISHOP | | Wed Oct 03 1990 11:21 | 12 |
| Then there's more than one such story--the one I read was a full-length
novel about a psychiatrist who has Satan on his couch, and the phrase
"psycho-analysis" occurs in the title. It's a mainstream novel (albeit
based on a fantastic premise) rather than SF or fantasy, somewhat like
_The_Circus_of_Dr._Lao_.
Lots of people have written about Satan in a {semi-}sympathetic way:
Steven Brust and Piers Anthony are only the latest in a long line
stretching back to Milton and the author of Job. Was the Russell
story the one about unions in Hell?
-John Bishop
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| 921.5 | EFR's short story | AIAG::LUTZ | | Wed Oct 03 1990 15:27 | 11 |
| re. the Eric Frank Russell story
It was called "Displaced Person" and was only 2-3 pages long. One
of the best short short stories I've ever read.
It certainly wasn't the book that the base noter is searching for,
but it is a story well worth reading. I just can't seem to find it
in any of the Russell collections that I find! :-}
Scott
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| 921.6 | | DHARMA::BROOMHEAD | | Wed Oct 03 1990 19:38 | 7 |
| [.0] - I haven't read "JOB", so I can't make a comparison, but here's one
possibility. Jeremy Levin (who also wrote "Creator") wrote one of these -
the title is something like "Satan - his psychotherapy and cure by the
unfortunate Dr. Kassler, JSPS (Just Some Poor Schmuck)". This is a pretty
wild book...
Kirk
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| 921.7 | | AV8OR::EDECK | | Thu Oct 04 1990 09:38 | 8 |
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ref. "...the unions in hell..."
Is that the one where the assistant devils go out on strike
and suddenly peanut butter sandwiches begin landing bread
side _down_?
E.
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| 921.8 | Well, we found one of them... | MINAR::BISHOP | | Thu Oct 04 1990 11:13 | 5 |
| re .6: Dr Kessler or Kassler--that's the one _I_ was thinking of,
but the author of .0 will have to tell us whether that's the one
he/she was thinking of.
-John Bishop
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| 921.9 | | TJB::WRIGHT | Anarchy - a system that works for everyone.... | Thu Oct 04 1990 11:57 | 12 |
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A yup, thats the one (.6), I just asked the person who told me about it and the
name rang all the appropriate bells...
Now for the next question - is it still in print? and if not, where could I
find a copy??
Thanks, alot.
grins,
clark.
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| 921.10 | Harlan Ellison | NYTP07::LAM | Q ��Ktl�� | Thu Oct 04 1990 13:53 | 2 |
| Didn't Harlan Ellison write a short story along the same lines ? I
vaguely remember reading it years ago but I don't remember the title.
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| 921.11 | | AV8OR::EDECK | | Fri Oct 05 1990 09:31 | 4 |
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ref .10:
Yeah--"The Deathbird." (I just happen to have a copy at my elbow...)
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| 921.12 | Laumer too... | LENO::GRIER | mjg's holistic computing agency | Thu Oct 18 1990 21:33 | 6 |
| Keith Laumer has a story, in his "Best Of..." book which is an interesting
aspect of this too - alien demons are invading hell...
Can't recall the story's name offhand...
-mjg
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