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This is unfortunate because there is a lot of interesting literary and cultural history scattered through this book. Even someone not currently involved with the title topics will find some points of interest, and this book should find a place on the shelves of those who enjoy reading about the development of American popular culture during the 20th century.
It’s disappointing that this popular culture would appropriate the ideas of a serious (if pulp) fiction writer and transform them into even pulpier pseudoscientific nonsense. No good deed goes unpunished, I suppose, and perhaps fiction writers need to think about the possibility that their stories might actually be taken seriously by someone in the future.
I wonder if H.P. Lovecraft would have done anything differently if he had had an inkling of what would happen. Perhaps he would haver written a story about the purveyors of pop pseudoscience being eaten by Cthulhu in an especially unpleasant manner.
It’s disappointing that this popular culture would appropriate the ideas of a serious (if pulp) fiction writer and transform them into even pulpier pseudoscientific nonsense. No good deed goes unpunished, I suppose, and perhaps fiction writers need to think about the possibility that their stories might actually be taken seriously by someone in the future.
I wonder if H.P. Lovecraft would have done anything differently if he had had an inkling of what would happen. Perhaps he would haver written a story about the purveyors of pop pseudoscience being eaten by Cthulhu in an especially unpleasant manner.
