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From: acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Piers Anthony
Date: 13 Sep 92 23:43:19 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

Flame-bait ahead!

Piers Anthony is the biggest hack in speculative fiction, grinding out
Xanth book after Xanth book as if he had the process automated. Quality
no longer matters to him, just the bucks.

At Balticon a couple of years back, a writer (I can't remember which)
was discussing hack-work. I brought up Piers Anthony, to audience
laughter. Said writer told the following story:

Back when Piers first started writing, he wrote quality stuff, like
Tarot. His friends and critics praised it. But, it didn't sell. Then, he
started doing Xanth. The first few got praise (and sold, boy did 
they sell), but after a while, the criticism started. Piers said
to himself, "Hmmmm, I can be broke and loved, or rich and hated."
The rest is history.

The writes went on to discuss Anthony's 1-800 number (1-800-HI PIERS).
I don't know if its still around, but it was to join the Anthony
fan club (it was advertised on several cable networks.) He said,
"It could have been worse. He _could_ have..." and the audience
chorused "1 900 HI PIERS".  

Just one note. Some of Anthony's stuff I do like. Incarnations
of Immortality isn't bad, and I really enjoyed Bio Of A Space
Tyrant, which didn't really get a lot of notice.

And a rumor about him - I've heard he's one of the biggest
land owners in Florida, second only to Disney. Anyone know
if that's true?
-- 
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with an incredible number of bits.
Arthur C. Adams (not the comic-book artist)                        <fnord>
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From: ca572@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark L. Stackpole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:05:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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My guess as to why the "Deliverator" section feels different from
the rest of the novel, is that SNOW CRASH was originally going
to be a comic book (sorry..Graphic Novel). As Stephenson explains
at the end, all that flashy imagery got too complex to mount on
the MAC program the illustrator was using.
IMHO the most interesting section of SC was the lecture on
language hackers. The action/adventure portions were fun but not
outstanding & they've been done just as well in other CPNK 
stories anyway.
Mark Stackpole   pacnet@rocky.claremont.edu
From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: _The Bobbit_ Wanted
Date: 11 Sep 92 10:31:30 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I thought _Bored of the Rings_ was great, so I just have to have
this.  Anyone have a copy they wish to sell?
-- 
Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ  08807-2618
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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: Piers Anthony
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 05:28:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams):
>And a rumor about him - I've heard he's one of the biggest land owners
>in Florida, second only to Disney. Anyone know if that's true?

Simple arithmetic suggests that it's not.  Suppose his income has
averaged $1 million per book -- a number which seems ridiculously 
high.  However prolific an author you may think him, that still
doesn't add up to enough money to be the second-largest land owner
in Florida.

-----
Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

   The inability of snakes to count is actually a refusal, on their part,
    to appreciate the Cardinal Number system. -- "Actual Facts"
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: An unenviable position
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:25:33 GMT

mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus) writes:
: In article <1992Sep14.044435.19755@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca> aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
: >   No, I don't consider myself Piers Anthony's greatest fan, but I'm
: >   goddamn tired of the way Anthony fans are considered second-class
: >   citizens merely my profession of a single author preference.
: 
:     You know, under most circumstances I'd agree with you, but don't you
: think maybe the phenomenon has something to do with that Piers Anthony
: is trash-seping bilge monster who can't write?

No, I don't.  Get back to talk.bizarre, mjd.  You're not one of the guilty.

--
---Alfvaen(Canadian SF Quasi-Activist)
"You better hope and pray that you're gonna awake
 Back in your own world..."  ---Shakespear's Sister
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Current Read--Robert Heinlein:The Past Through Tomorrow
From: willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Heinlein GOOD??!! was Re: Piers Anthony
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:54:02 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

(Aaron Humphrey) writes:

>He writes it "factory-style"?  Is that something like saying he writes it
>professionally?  Churning out fiction by the carload?  Anything at all like,
>say, Asimov or Heinlein?

>Ah, but they were >good<, you say.  Well, I can't help but agree.

Au contraire, mon frere!  (I've always wanted to say that:).
I would very much hesitate to place Heinlein in the same sentence as Asimov,
unless it is to show contrast.  IMO Heinlein has about as much to recommend
him as Hubbard, which isn't much.  Ok his works may be miles better than
Anthony's, but they still are not, IMO deserving of the >good< epithet!


>: Take Stephen Donaldson, as an example of Another bestselling fantasy
>: author. The first Thomas Covenant trilogy sold rather well. Rather than
>: do the 36th book in the Thomas Covenant trilogy, he did a sequel, but
>: in what was essentially a completely recreated world, with really
>: only the geography remaining the same. And, even though, the second
>: trilogy was on major best-seller lists, he hasn't gone back, even
>: though his alter stuff haasn't done as well.

I liked both the Unicorn story and the Angel stories from Daughter of Regals.
From: wrighttj@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Auntie Tim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Stranger in a Strange Land
Date: 9 Sep 92 12:42:27 GMT
Organization: Aston University

I'm sure this book must have been analysed to death here already, but
I've just read the "original" version so I thought I'd post a few
queries. 
   Jubal Harshaw states that geniuses always make up their own rules;
this idea crops up in other books as well (Friday, The Number of The 
Beast) but he also says this was proved by "Armattoe in 1948". Is
this a real reference? What was the original book/ paper, and where
can I get hold of it?
   What are the origins of the "Martian" religion/philosophy? It seems
to be a blend of eastern mythology such as Zen, with numerous other
influences; what are the accepted starting points? Did Heinlein ever
say? How much of it was original (i.e. devised by R.A.H) and how much
plagiarised? 
   Does anyone have a list of what each of the names of the 'cast'
mean? Apparently they're all significant; whilst I could spend a few
hours in a bookshop hunched over a "What to call your Baby" book, it'd
be simpler if someone had already done it.

TIA; I hope this doesn't all seem too naive/boring. 
-- 
Tim Wright.                   \               Real Life sucks
wrighttj@cs.aston.ac.uk        \                   losers dry.
From: ca572@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark L. Stackpole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Enders Trilogy by Orson Scott Card
Date: 15 Sep 1992 19:07:35 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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OSC's new Ender book, which is still being written, has the 
working title _Ender's Children_. Card promises that Ender Wiggin
will be 100% dead by the time you reach end flap.
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Gold
Date: 9 Sep 1992 21:24:04 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, mdl@phelixsalt (Michael Lynch) says:

>
>Okay.  It's happened twice today.  First it was "Fithp," and now it's
>"fen."   I overlooked Fithp, figuring that sooner or later someone would
>inadvertantly [ :-) ] define it for me.  But now there's fen.  (fans?)
>
>
>What's a fen?
>
>What's a Fithp?  Is that what you do when you have a hair in your mouth?
>
Well, don't ask me about fen, but fithp comes from _Footfall_ by Niven,
Pournelle, and maybe a third author. (I lose track of these
collaborations.) In _Footfall_, the aliens' word for 'person' is 'fi''.
(Yes, that's _f_, _i_, _'_.) The plural is fithp. Hence, fithp refers to a
group of people. Here, reference was made to the "Dreamer Fithp," a team of
sci-fi authors who help to save the day. (Typical Nivan wish-fulfillment.
Not _bad_, but IMHO detrimental to the quality of the book as a serious work.)
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From: steelem@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (STEELE MARK A)
Subject: Re: Heinlein stories ?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:39:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.004336.19970@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
>In article <1992Sep10.163459.8627@pbhyc.PacBell.COM>, djdaneh@pbhyc (Dan'l DanehyOakes) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep10.025827.9894@colorado.edu> robertm@alumni.cs.colorado.edu (MONTGOMERY ROBERT PH) writes:
>>
>>>1. "Window to the Stars"
>>
>>Hard to say -- the most probable would be TUNNEL IN THE SKY, but that's
>>pushing it a little.
>
>That was my first thought, too.

TUNNEL IN THE SKY - Story about Rod Walker and his survival class test.

>>Perhaps there's something I'm forgetting.
>
>What about that story with the TP twin brothers; one goes out in space
>& the other stays home?  The name escapes me, but I /think/ it was
>something like that (just discussed on the net, too :-/  ).
>
This might be TIME FOR THE STARS

>-- 
>Caught an internal error--.brainrc restored

Mark Steele
steelem@rintintin.colorado.edu
From: cbehre@spock.usc.edu (Charles Behre)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Gregory Benford
Date: 9 Sep 1992 15:02:45 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
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Two Questions:
1) Are the plots in Across the Sea of Suns and In the Ocean of Night
   connected to Great Sky River and Tides of Light
2) Is GB planning on completing trilogies of these stories.

--Chip
From: acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Doc Smith Question (was Re: Dreamer Fithp)
Keywords: scientists, SF writers
Date: 8 Sep 92 01:44:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Sep8.011743.5134@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jfzeigl@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Jon Zeigler) writes:
>
>Science fiction has come a *long* way since "Doc" Smith earned it a sliver of
>respectability by being the only major writer with a doctorate. . .

Just a little trivia question: is it true "Doc" Smith's PhD was for
inventing powdered sugar for donuts?
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Arthur C. Adams (not the comic-book artist)                        <fnord>
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From: phatch@coyote.slc.mentorg.com (Phill Hatch (CONTRACTOR Documentation))
Subject: Re: Looking for Short Story
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corp.,  Murray, Utah
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:52:24 GMT

In article <168621022C.REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Rebecca Drayer) writes:
> I'm looking for the title of a short story that was published in Isaac Asimov's
> Science Fiction Magazine some time ago.  It was about a boy who could kill
> people with his mind by somehow giving them cancer.  (He did it to a
> busdriver who was rude to him).  I seem to recall that the format of the
> story was the kid narrating it to some unseen entity who kept prompting him.
> Does anyone remember this story and who wrote it?
>  
>  
> *************************************************************************
> Rebecca A. Drayer, EMT        |    Rebecca@Yalevm.Ycc.Yale.edu
> P.O. Box 6349 Yale Station    |    Computing Assistant
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>  
Orson Scott Card,  I read it in his _Maps in the Mirror_ anthology.
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Piers Anthony
Date: 14 Sep 1992 14:52:58 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
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In a previous article, aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) says:

>dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil) writes:
>: 
>: In a previous article, mweinste@pearl.tufts.edu () says:
>: 
>: >Is anyone out there a Piers Anthony fan?  I prefer his fantasy to his
>: >sci-fi, but that's because I generally like the fantasy genre better.
>: >I've read all of the Xanth books, the Apprentice Adept books, the
>: >Incarnations series, and Firefly (perhaps his best yet!).  Every one
>: >of his books is fun, impossible to put down, and filled with excitement.
>: >Anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of reading Anthony should pick up one
>: >of his books... let me know if you are interested, I can make some 
>: >recommendations.  If you are already an Anthony fan, leave me a reply
>: >and we can compare notes.
>: 
>: Are you serious, or just joking?
>
><sigh>  This is the kind of thing that inspired the post that started a brief
>flamewar through misinterpretation a while ago.  This kind of response to those
>who honestly like Anthony's work, or whoever else's, is why I recommended that
>those people be directed swiftly to the alt.fan newsgroups rather than face the
>kind of superior attitude they'll find here.

Believe it or not, my comment was not intended to be insulting. I meant it
in exactly the way it was written. Look at the post that inspired this
thread: It is either a rabid Anthony fan, or someone pretending to be one
in order to start a flamewar. This post is almost BEGGING for an
Anthony-hater to flame it. Therefore, I asked (not really expecting an
answer) if it was posted by someone who honestly likes Anthony or just a
troublemaker.

As I said...reread the original post. Can you think of anything more likely
to inspire rabid flames from some members of this group? If this post was
written by someone who honestly likes Anthony, my apologies to them.
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From: clc@kepler.unh.edu (Christian L Claiborn)
Subject: Re: The Doomsday Book
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 23:47:30 GMT

In article <18o9ckINNn6a@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ca572@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark L. Stackpole) writes:
>
>Connie Willis has had only only collection published: _Fire 
>Watch_ (Bluejay 1985). This contains one of the nastiest feminist
>stories ever written "All My Darling Daughters".

OK, it's mega-feminist, but let's face it, folks.  It's also one of the most
chilling SF stories ever told, with probably one of the scariest looks at human
(male) nature around.
						clc 
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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Gormenghast (Minor spoilers(?))
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:41:33 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

In article <18l1ugINNpk7@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU>  
plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak) writes:
> In article <1992Sep6.022804.7359@ac.dal.ca> hyde@ac.dal.ca writes:
> >	Gormenghast as a whole  is by no means escape literature...
> 
>    This brings to mind a question I've had ever since starting the
> books (I'm between books two and three right now).  Why is it
> considered SF/fantasy?  The edition I bought was filed in the
> SF section of the bookstore, but nowhere on the books was any
> indication that they aren't "mainstream" fiction.  After getting
> no more than a few chapters into the first book, I mentally filed
> them much closer to, say, Dickens, than to Arthur Clarke, Marion
> Zimmer Bradley, etc.  It seems even more ridiculous when you
> consider that books like _Jurassic Park_ are considered mainstream
> fiction.  What's the deal?
> --

There are a lot of answers to this question.  One part of it
is that books in fantastic settings (and Gormenghast is fantastic,
even if there is no magic involved) are traditionally fantasy.
The exception is when the author is a known mainstream writer
(or has somehow gotten to be categorized that way). Another answer
is that these books were out of print for years in the US until
Lin Carter brought them back into print as part of the Ballantine
Adult Fantasy series.

They are certainly closer to Dickens than to most recent fantasy.
However, before fantasy became dominated by the trilogies written
in an very non-ornate style, there were many fantasies written
in elaborate styles. (Not like Peake's in the way they are elaborate,
but alike in that they ARE elaborate.)  E.R. Eddison is a good
example of this by the way.

I like Peake quite a bit by the way. I just reread Titus Groan and
hope to soon reread Gormenghast.  (The third book, Titus Alone,
isn't up to the first two.)

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: mvp@hsv3.lsil.com (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Dreamer Fithp
Date: 9 Sep 92 02:07:02 GMT
Organization: LSI Logic/Headland Technology

In article <1992Sep7.202236.29238@u.washington.edu> daynem@byron.u.washington.edu (Dayne Miller) writes:
>Niven and Pournelle, in FOOTFALL, mention a Threat Team (the "Dreamer Fithp")
>that's composed of several writers of SF that advise the federal gov't. in 
>times of unusual crisis. I believe Niven makes reference to a similar group 
>in one of his short stories (maybe in the LIMITS collection??).
>
>Is there any evidence to suggest that such an organization may exist, either
>actively or in a contingency-based set-up?

My first reaction on seeing the title was "*sigh* not again...", but
rather than rehashing the "Who were they, *really*?" question, you have
an interesting new slant on the topic.

>If so, who is (or should be) on it? I'd guess Niven, Pournelle, David Brin, 
>Orson Scott Card, Asimov (were he still alive), Carl Sagan (maybe the only
>true scientist of the group), Gregory Benford, Greg Bear, and a few others
>(mostly "hard SF" writers, in all likelihood).

It'd have to tend to "hard SF" writers, as the purpose of the group is to
brainstorm approaches to dealing with real threats.

Just as a first cut at it, I'd add Poul Anderson, Octavia Butler, John
Stith, John Cramer, C. J.  Cherryh, Fred Saberhagen, Gordon Dickson,
The Brothers Haldeman, Stanley Schmidt, Robert Forward, and James
Hogan, at least for the initial pool of prospects.  (Cherryh, Forward,
and Haldeman were probably some of the other characters in N&P's
"Dreamer Fithp", at least as parts of composite characters.)

I'm sure I'm missing many obvious candidates.
-- 
Mike Van Pelt                          Here lies a Technophobe,
LSI Logic/Headland Products               No whimper, no blast.
sun!indetech!hsv3!mvp                  His life's goal accomplished,
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Subject: Re: David Gemmel
From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:51:48 GMT
Organization: School of Maths and Info Sciences, Massey University, NZ.

In article <bphillip.6.716007852@massey.ac.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:
>Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
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>From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
>Subject: Re: David Gemmel
>Message-ID: <bphillip.6.716007852@massey.ac.nz>
>Organization: School of Maths and Info Sciences, Massey University, NZ.
>References: <1992Sep8.231308.23523@menudo.uh.edu>
>Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:04:12 GMT

>In article <1992Sep8.231308.23523@menudo.uh.edu> barrus@oak.egr.uh.edu (Karl L. Barrus) writes:
>>Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
>>Path: cc-server4.massey.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!usenet
>>From: barrus@oak.egr.uh.edu (Karl L. Barrus)
>>Subject: Re: David Gemmel
>>Message-ID: <1992Sep8.231308.23523@menudo.uh.edu>
>>Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System)
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>>Organization: University of Houston
>>Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:13:08 GMT
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>>>cwes1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Clare West) writes:
>>>I guess he doesn't have a very high profile in America or else readers
>>>of this group think him beneath them.

>>>ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig)
>>>Probably the "Iain Banks" syndrome - unless somebody actually brings out
>>>the books in the US, hardly anybody on the net is going to take notice...

>>I can at least verify that Gemmel isn't published in the Houston area...or  
>>I'm having extremely bad luck finding his novels or the bookstores here  
>>just don't stock his work.  After reading the praised heaped upon him, I'm  
>>about ready to special order one or two.  Any suggestions/recommendations?
>>--
>>/-----------------------------------\
>>| Karl L. Barrus                    |
>>| barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXTMail) |
>>| elee7h5@jetson.uh.edu             |
>>\-----------------------------------/
>Get "Legend" - it combines the first 3 Drenai (sp?) books in chronological 
     ^^^^^^^^
I'm a moron!! :) This should read "Drenai Tales" - Legend is one of the 
stories contained in this compendium.

>order plus it includes a previously unpublished short story about how Druss 
>became the Legend.

>Brenden

Brenden again
From: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: SNOW CRASH by Neal Stephenson
Date: 13 Sep 92 22:46:30 GMT
Organization: Society for the Appreciation of Janni Lee Simner

He said:
>Other He said:
>>I said:
>>> ...  Pat Cadigan.
>>
>>Oh dear.  Is Cadigan stuck with the cyberpunk label too?  I've always enjoyed
>>Pat's work, never really grouped it with that of <ick> Gibson's.
>
>Is this really a problem? IMHO:
>
>(1) Good fiction is good fiction, and bad fiction is bad fiction, and
>anyone who cares about what 'label' some people stick on an author's
>work, or worse is influenced by that label, is being foolish;

What He said.

	Larry "Yes" Hammer
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