Given its emphasis on urban planning, I'm reminded of John Brunner's excellent The Squares of the City (see my review here. In other words, The Years of the City is the closest SF thing I've read yet by Pohl to combine somewhat realistic contemporary lit w/ SF. I called them my "serious stories" I look back on them now as my attempts to bring to the task of telling a science fiction story everything I know about setting and symbol, theme and character." - p 9, Breaking PointĪll of Pohl's stories are infused w/ a social consciousness that I admire but it's this bk in particular that seems to do what Gunn describes above, "to bridge the gap between the ghetto and the larger world outside". "The stories contained in this collection were intended as part of that effort. "a concern for technique was exhibited by writers throughout the history of magazine science fiction" "When they were successful their stories helped to bridge the gap between the ghetto and the larger world outside".
To paraphrase SF writer James Gunn's introduction to his bk of short stories entitled Breaking Point (see my review here.
By tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - July 8, 2015
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