Christopher wrote:
SFTV is almost always a decade or two behind prose SF.
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That is true, but my point was that the gap between the two was particularly wide during the period of the New Wave.
In the case of TOS, television was a decade behind the
cinema--which was already pretty far behind literary SF in 1956.
CorporalCaptain wrote:
In a nutshell, it's a metaphor for pollution.
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Thank you. But once again: this is rather beside my point.
I didn't have any difficulty
understanding the novel. As other people have noted, Asimov's writing is nothing if not clear.
I have difficulty
remembering it. I just reviewed the plot by reading the novel's Wikipedia entry, and I still don't remember any of it.