tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7172359179613729870.post3380056387227698695..comments2024-03-09T13:49:30.039+05:30Comments on Variety SF: * Kate Wilhelm's "The Planners" (short story, science fiction)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7172359179613729870.post-66844450945931193582012-10-30T23:02:14.711+05:302012-10-30T23:02:14.711+05:30Just finished the story and looking for some comme...Just finished the story and looking for some comments on it online.<br />This blog post is the first I found. But sorry, I disagree with pretty much all of it.<br /><br />Personally, I believe this story has a very strong point and this point can be found in Darin, the protagonist.<br />He is a character who faces a troubled life. From two angles :<br />1) his conscience (his experiments, especially the ones on Sonny and the convicts);<br />2) his failed marriage.<br />How are these two threads related to each other?<br />By Darin's fantasies, that are his way to deal with these issues.<br />However, these fantasies have a different scheme:<br />he has an invented scolding character, Rae, for its conscience-related troubles, whereas he likes to account humorously about his wife and colleagues (man, how formidable is the part where he describes the Barbie Doll factory for the first time?).<br /><br />By the character of Darin, a man that is perfectly aware of his complex daydreams, we get a thick, engrossing SF story (which by the way, for the writing side, is one hell of a great piece of craft)Matteohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18237974243943601471noreply@blogger.com