Post by Dave BaranyiPost by Bobbie SellersHi fans of Gundam and Reideen,
Tomino Yoshiyuki
Why the Gundam Creator Can Be So Hit or Miss!
<http://ogiuemaniax.com/2017/09/17/tomino-yoshiyukis-big-picture-why-the-gundam-creator-can-be-so-hit-or-miss/>
I got the whole thing in email from OM, and i think
it is interesting.
bliss
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I've liked a number of Tomino's works over the years - "Brain Powerd", "Turn A Gundam", "Overman King Gainer" - and there are a number of his other works that haven't done a lot for me, particularly his more main stream Gundam works.
Tomino's storytelling has always reminded me of the storytelling of A. E. van Vogt - start in the midst of action, don't necessarily tell or show the audience all of the background story, and jump around a lot. van Vogt attributed his style to deliberately setting himself up to dream at night and then writing down his dreams first thing in the morning while he still remembered them. I've often wondered if Tomino has used the same approach.
Dave Baranyi
So that point is pretty much the point of OM's article.
He does like to jump in the middle of the action. I dunno about
that dreaming. Van Vogt's stuff when I was reading it in the 50s was
very dreamlike. "The Weapons Shop of Ishur" and the Null A
series(non-Aristolian logic is the Null-A and while he did not intend,
it forcast
the rise of the movement toward intuitive and neo-religious forms.
Slan is the novel I best remember. There were lots of other stories at
the same time about the successors to homo sapiens sapiens by other
authors and being an outsider I was very interested in that sort of
theme, leading my adolescent-self like Sheldon Cooper to identify with
homo superior or more attractive aliens. No Spock but Holmes to be
"Logical"
Too bad for him he got involved with dianetics and Ron Hubbard.
Those who are interested in older SF can check out the
Wiki entry at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._van_Vogt>
bliss
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bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com