If I had a paid membership I'd poll for who has read this and what they remember about it. I read it several times in youth, and rereading it now was a strange experience: some scenes and sentences remembered across twenty years, others completely as new.
Is there anyone who doesn't remember at least something about Baby is Three?
The time is the years around World War II. The place is not named but fairly obviously US mid-West. Three novellas trace the birth and adolescence of a gestalt being, born of humanity but transcending it, struggling to grow to maturity in an unfriendly world.
And now I think I'm going to go away and think about it a bit more.
Is there anyone who doesn't remember at least something about Baby is Three?
The time is the years around World War II. The place is not named but fairly obviously US mid-West. Three novellas trace the birth and adolescence of a gestalt being, born of humanity but transcending it, struggling to grow to maturity in an unfriendly world.
And now I think I'm going to go away and think about it a bit more.
Comments
I remember not being as impressed as I generally was with his short stuff.
I have a couple of vague memories (visual (that's odd)) of plot points without thinking about it two much. Enough that I know most of it would come back to me while reading it.
I mostly seem to recall that the "family" dynamics of the gestalt, were disturbing.
Looking forward to re-reading it, especially as I actually remember very little about it.