Posted by Jock on November 13, 2005 at 23:56:05 from 81.190.44.215 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: PM and GN posted by Peter Ceresole on November 13, 2005 at 19:08:17:
Maria and Evgenia might have been temperamentally alike, but politicaly they would have been at opposite ends of the spectrum.
I wonder... I wonder, if Evgenia's critical input was more than advising AR as to whether a paqrticular book should live or die. PM was written in spite of Evgenia, AR didn't have the strength to withstamd her disapproval of CN. But CC and BS? Did Evgenia ifluence AR's decision to abandon the Swallows (upper middle glass) and Amazons (crypto UC) in favour of the working class D&Gs. Did she ever forgive his decision to return the stories to their roots.
Was CN an attempt by AR to "square the circle" and to tie all the threads together. Asmimov tried a similar trick with the "Robot" and "Foundation" stories. It worked out for him. But then again he didn't have to face Evgenia's withering criticism.