re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White

That’s exactly the book I was thinking of, but it’s true of a lot of others. Fear of crime, because of the unexpected rise, was rampant at the time. And by 1970 when he published that, he was already an Old White Guy.

There’s also the fact that most of SciFi then was written by White Guys, which also skewed things a bit. (probably also true now).

Because we spent 2-3 year blocks overseas, away from US television, we were sensitized to the changes when we returned. I love Lennie and Lawn Order, but the massive exposure to atrocity—spinoff after spinoff, syndicated 36/7, scared the shit out of Americans who never saw a Bronx tenement. That is still going on.