{"id":1670,"date":"2021-03-30T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T02:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2021-03-30T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T02:43:56","slug":"living-in-chad-olivers-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/futurespastandpresent\/living-in-chad-olivers-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Chad Oliver’s House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chad Oliver in the 1950’s.<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, March 30, is the birthday of Chad Oliver (1928-1993). Oliver didn’t leave a large body of work. He pursued an academic career in anthropology. And it’s this back ground that made his best work stand out.<\/p>\n

I met him briefly a year or three before his death at one of the first Armadillocons I attended. He was friendly and outgoing.<\/p>\n

Today’s story is “Let me Live in a House”, which was first published in the March 1954 issue of Universe Science Fiction<\/em>. It is currently available in Far From This Earth Selected Stories of Chad Oliver Volume 2<\/em><\/a>. It is available in electronic form, and I think the NESFA hardcover edition is still in print.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In this story two couples are living next door to each other in cottages with green lawns and picket fences. On Ganymede.<\/p>\n

They’re part of a project to show people can adapt to space exploration. The central character, Gordon, wants the project to succeed, but there is a lot of resistance on Earth to the idea of space travel .<\/p>\n

Then an alien arrives. Or does he? I found the ending a little ambiguous. Did Gordon and the others crack up and imagine there was an alien? I think there was, but Oliver left just enough doubt in my mind.<\/p>\n

I’ll be reading more of Chad Oliver in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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