Re: [slightly OT]SF novels (was Re: Rules for BFG/FT...)

>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brian Burger wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Thomas Anderson wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, John C wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Kim Stanley Newman 
>> > 
>> > ummm... i don't know of a kim stanley newman. i know of a kim
newman, and
>> > i know of a kim stanley robinson (of 'coloured mars' infamy).
>> 
>> Infamy? You didn't like the "Red/Green/Blue Mars" trilogy?
>
>i can't really say; i read about half of red mars, but by then it was
so
>boring i gave up.
 
Same here. Gaahhhh.
 
> i know this is a statement of the most unforgivable
>heresy! i intend to go back and read it one day, as everyone else in
the
>world says it is brilliant. they can't all be wrong (although there
could
>be a sequence in the second half of the book which taps into embedded
>language patters to brainwash fnord the reader into thinking he had
just
>read a brilliant book ...).
 
Sure they could. And I intend to leave it right on the shelf where
it is.
 
- Sam

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