标题: 《Chicken Soup 》作者：- Katherine Maclean, Mary Kornbluth【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-3 15:21 标题: 《Chicken Soup 》作者：- Katherine Maclean, Mary Kornbluth【EPUB】 YOU DON'T HAVE to be Jewish to write a story about chicken soup, as Katherine Maclean with prompting from Mary Kornbluth, magnificently proves. Chicken soup has been credited by comedians and wise men alike as being the equivalent of "Jewish Penicillin"—good for anything that ails you. It is possible that with a few special ingredients and a soft incantation or two it might have even more remarkable properties. Kathering MacLean has since 1949 been a much admired and much anthologized writer of science fiction, but her ventures into fantasy fiction have been rare. Possibly one of the reasons is that there is small market for weird fiction today or even in the last two decades. Possibly a better reason was that she did not have an authority on the potentialities of chicken soup like Mary Kornbluth to urge her on. As might be obvious from the name, Mary Kornbluth was the wife of the late Cyril Kornbluth. She had met him through science fiction, having entered into correspondence with enthusiasts in the field (including your editor) as early as 1938. In recent times she was best known for the anthology Science Fiction Showcase, published by Doubleday in 1959 and published as a sort of memorial to Cyril Kornbluth who had died the previous year. Asked how they came to dream up so deliciously ethnic a brew as Chicken Soup, the two authors merely smiled inscrutably and chorused: "Try it! You'll like it!— Chicken Soup By KATHERINE MACLEAN and MARY KORNBLUIII HERBIE'S LAST MORNING class ended at eleven, which left him