March 5th 2016: 'The Barbarians' by Algis Budrys

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Please join us for our next chat in #readers_corner at 8:30 P.M. (EST) on March 5th, 2016 (00:30 A.M. (GMT), March 6th ), for a discussion of The Barbarians by Algis Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008). Budrys wrote a number of Science Fiction stories, mostly for the pulp monthly Scifi magazines, as well as several novels.  He is most noted as an editor and critic, primarily of science fiction and fantasy publications, and as a longtime teacher at the Clarion Writers Workshop.

 

This story is an example of a main-stream "Speculative Fiction" tale from the later golden age.  It falls into the general category of post-apocalyptic naratives way back when the threat was seen as the collapse of modern society due to a feared nuclear war (the story was published under the pen name John Sentry in If, February 1958.  In the 1950s the threat was viewed as the Soviet Union, not  a Zombie invasion.

 

The tag line for the story was: "History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land."  The story deals with civilized behavior and honor.  I think you will enjoy it.

 

The story is available on line at: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/63681/

 

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I hope you can all make the chat, there will be a number of things to discus.

 

Log Attached:  #readers_corner20160305.txt