Her science fiction was an antique, filled with lame tropes borrowed from the 1950s. David Morse similarly knows next to nothing about the writing of science fiction but must have felt his story needed the element of time travel to snare readers. But all that attention hasn't diminished her pleasure at coming home to Minnesota for a visit. Is the Night. But that's the fun of it.
Some people think list-making is a particularly futile exercise.
Their choices succeeded in making no one happy except, perhaps, the members of the committee. By Contra Costa Newspapers Opinions on the '100 best novels,' part 2 Last week, as soon as the Modern Library released its rankings of this century's 100 best novels written in English, the debate began. In Central Kentucky, as across the country, literary types took issue with the publisher's choices. Well, neither have most other literate Americans. But Beerbohm's 1911 satire of life at Oxford University is number 59 on the Modern Library's recently released 100 best English-language novels of this century.