Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:27:18 -0500 From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: reading likes and dislikes Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Michael Walsh wrote: > > Sir Arthur should have left well enough alone and left Rama as single = > novel. > > mjw Yup. Best description of the problem I've seen is that Clarke is the prime example of an "enlightened secular humanist"; Gentry Lee is a conservative, doctrinaire, Catholic. Not subtle about it, either. Coulda been worse. "Cradle", by the same two authors, got bounced off a wall when I realized that I had just read two hundred pages of uninteresting, poorly done descriptions of some of the main characters' adolescent sexual experiences. I figured that by the time they got done with that, there wouldn't be room left in the book for anything else. -- Steve Smith sgs at aginc.net Agincourt Computing http://www.aginc.net "Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."