From: apash@mta.ca
Subject: Re: "lesser" books
Reply-To: apash@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:44:00 GMT

In article <92286.152556IO10536@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, IO10536@MAINE.MAINE.EDU writes:
>
>  First I want to say in lieu to the earlier reference that *all*
>fans of PA must have all his books- please rethink your position!
>  Of all the PA fans in my clique, (about nine of us) only two
>have more than eight of his books... one has about fifty and I have
>*only* 68 of them. :-)
>  If my friend has a good book, I'll usually borrow it to read rather
>than buy it myself.  One friend has every McCaffrey book out- I'm
>certainly glad to borrow them and not incur the expense of buying
>them myself!  However, I'm still a fan and feel I can post on the
>alt.fan.mccaffrey without owning all her books.
>FLAME OFF
>
>On to the real subject of my post: those single novels by PA
>  (Now that I'm here, where do I begin?)
>It just seems to me that his series get so much attention, with
>the current exception of Macroscope.  How about Rings of Ice?
>As is most of his novels, and the first few of his series, the
>basic premise of the book is interesting and well thought out.
>I'm no meterologist- I couldn't say how truly those conditions
>might occur- but it *sounded* good in the story. Comments?
>
>One of my favorite is Mute.  Knot is a Good Guy in every sense
>of the word.  Trust PA to give some of the better powers to
>animals, too.  Hermine is cute!!!
>
>And from Anthonology,  Wood You?  has to be the best short story
>for me. (MHO)  I like splitting wood and it's GREAT.
>Please, people, give equal time to his other books, the ones that
>didn't make TRILOGY status.
>  Some other books I'd like to have opinions on:  The Ring, Triple
>Detente, Steppe (IMHO great!), Race against Time, Pretender, Hasan,
>and so on....  Comments?
>
>-trond
       I agree, _Mute_ was a fantastic novel.  Out of all his single
 books it is second only to _Macroscope_ (IMHO).  _Steppe will always
 be one of my favorite novels because it was the first P.A. book I 
 ever read and it hooked me.  Of the other books you have mentioned 
 I haven't had a chance to read _The Ring_, _Triple Detente_, 
 _Pretender_ or _Anthology_. Unfortunately my local boolstore never
 seems to have them.  The other books you mentioned were all really
 enjoyable, especially _Hasan_ which was an interesting change from
 his normal stuff.  Personally I have liked all his single novels that
 I have read.  _Ghost_ was a good book and had a very interesting look
 at time travel.  _But What Of Earth?_ was also pretty good and very
 informative on how some publishing companies can screw around their
 authors. I just picked up _Tatham Mound_ but have not yet had time to
 devour it yet.  I'm really looking forward to reading this book that
 Piers himself looks at as one of his most serious works to date.
 Hmmm.. almost forgot about _Firefly_ and _Shade of the Tree_. Very
 good horror novels for a sci.fi.-fantasy author, although I would say
 that they were both just as much sci.fi.-fantasy as horror. 
                         
                                  Anthony Pash

                                      
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