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<blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 751739" data-attributes="member: 6533">Ssswwweeettt.I love ERB.&nbsp; Only picked him up late in left and was amazed by his politics.&nbsp; Not only were the more or less interesting in their own right, but I was impressed that someone with such serious and non-fringe views would be writing them into these bizarre tales for young adults.I remember reading a Venus novel in which the main character fought Zani's and ERB had written into the novel many aspects of nazi society that wouldn't have been well known at all during the time it was written and were even slightly controversial.&nbsp; He would have even been labelled PAFT, prematurely anti-fascist, and denied certain priveleges if he had been involved directly in the war effort.&nbsp; He even has a scene involving ovens that seems almost anachronistic and oracular in that it could not have been something that any group would have widely associated with the Nazi's in 1939.&nbsp; And here was this guy writing it all into a story for a market that would have been too young to fight in a war America didn't want to enter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr. Strangemonkey, post: 751739, member: 6533"] Ssswwweeettt. I love ERB. Only picked him up late in left and was amazed by his politics. Not only were the more or less interesting in their own right, but I was impressed that someone with such serious and non-fringe views would be writing them into these bizarre tales for young adults. I remember reading a Venus novel in which the main character fought Zani's and ERB had written into the novel many aspects of nazi society that wouldn't have been well known at all during the time it was written and were even slightly controversial. He would have even been labelled PAFT, prematurely anti-fascist, and denied certain priveleges if he had been involved directly in the war effort. He even has a scene involving ovens that seems almost anachronistic and oracular in that it could not have been something that any group would have widely associated with the Nazi's in 1939. And here was this guy writing it all into a story for a market that would have been too young to fight in a war America didn't want to enter. [/QUOTE]

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