[New post] Book Review: Casey Agonistes and Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, Richard McKenna (1973)
Joachim Boaz posted: " Angus McKie's cover for the 1976 edition 4/5 (collated rating: Good) Richard McKenna (1913-1964) spent the majority of his adult career (1931-1964) "not very happily in the US Navy. He was forced to leave college and to join the service due to his "
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Richard McKenna (1913-1964) spent the majority of his adult career (1931-1964) "not very happily in the US Navy. He was forced to leave college and to join the service due to his lack of opportunities in rural Idaho during the Great Depression. Many of his science fiction stories explore the homosocial world of the military--the comradery through shared trauma and battle, the corrosive effect on those who struggle to fit in, and the destructive culture of machoism. After his military service, he enrolled at the University of North Carolina in English. Only a handful of SF short stories appeared during his lifetime, the majority were published posthumously. McKenna considered SF to be his "training ground" before a planned career in mainstream literature. Right before his early death in 1964, he hit it big with the non-SF novel The Sand Pebbles (1962), which was turned into a famous 1966 movie by the same name.
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