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From: tbray@mprvaxa.UUCP (Tim Bray)
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Subject: Heinlein and Wolfe
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 00:36:29 EST
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I'm always happy to read someone flaming Heinlein.  I hate Heinlein so
much that I hate myself when I occasionally am trapped in the grip of
his once-formidable storytelling ability.  Heinlein is a classic example
of great talent foundering under the weight of totally corrupt and
indefensible ideology.  The Richard Wagner of SF.

So how can someone with the sense to hate Heinlein also put down Gene
Wolfe?!?!  If anyone is reading this and doesn't know about Gene Wolfe
they should run, not walk, to the nearest bookstore and pick up
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe's Book of Days, and The Devil
In a Forest.

Tim Bray  ...decvax!microsoft!ubc-vision!tbray