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Re: Book burning (was Re: Flag Burning)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:32:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > Chris (Who thinks that Vinge writes the best SF.)
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> He's surely up there. However his latest wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped
> (it seemed to end rather implausibly after a setup for apparent
> invincibility by the villians).
Hmm. I didn't see that. I thought that he did a good job of plausibly giving
Pham appropriate advantages in order to allow him to cleverly win. Actually, I
think it was his best work yet. Because Star Wars was so much better than what
had come before, it has a special place even though there have been better
films. _A Fire Upon The Deep_ gets that same kind of position in my pantheon
of books even though I think _A Deepness in the Sky_ was better.
> Here's hoping we never have an Emergency here.
Yeah!
Chris
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| (...) Right, whereas I thought he just pulled out the ending without giving any hint that it was going to play out that way. I don't want to spoil too much so won't be more specific. (...) I'm of the opposite view, I see _Fire_ as his best by far. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) He's surely up there. However his latest wasn't quite as good as I'd hoped (it seemed to end rather implausibly after a setup for apparent invincibility by the villians). Here's hoping we never have an Emergency here. (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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