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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 04:30:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> 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).
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> 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.
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.
> 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.
I'm of the opposite view, I see _Fire_ as his best by far. There are just so
many great concepts in it. Slow zones, the galactic net as a mechanism for
disseminating (mis)information (kind of like here!), etc. etc.
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> > Here's hoping we never have an Emergency here.
There are some that say I am too Focused as it is!
++Lar
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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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