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Date Posted: 01:20:23 02/05/04 Thu
Author: theButterfly
Subject: Hello.
In reply to: Crysknife 's message, "Don't know" on 12:04:14 01/31/04 Sat

I had never heard of Feist either, so I didn't reply right away. I looked at a few of his book on Amazon.com, and they look to me like generic "sword and sorcery" books. Although that's probably just prejudice. I generally don't have very high expectations for books in the fantasy genre unless they're written by H. P. Lovecraft (my second favorite writer).

And as for KSR. Kim Stanley Robinson's only redeeming value is the Mars Trilogy, and the only redeeming values of the Mars Trilogy are: 1) It tells about the history of the terraformation of Mars in scientific detail; and 2) The story is just interesting enough to keep the reading of three books from getting boring.

His social, political and economic philosophies are completely nonsensical. But the two reasons listed above are reason enough that I'm greatly looking forward to the up coming Red Mars miniseries.

Anyway, when I want *hard* science fiction, I like to read books by Robert L. Forward, which is perhaps a strange admition for a Dune fan.

Hey, what about Mary Doria Russel? I just finished reading THE SPARROW a few days ago and I think she could do a good job. Like Frank Herbert, she doesn't insult her readers, and she would probably look at the Dune universe with new and interesting angles.

P.S. Okay, I lied. I was more interested in the Mars Trilogy than I let on. KSR builds a very cool sci fi universe that looks in many ways like I envision our future to look like--at least as far as the science and technology are concerned.

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True -- Crysknife, 11:56:51 02/05/04 Thu