Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:22:07 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Those Wild & Crazy SF Witers . . .
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

snipped from rasff, someone was looking for a novel identification, =
Langford replied - and note the last line . . . .:

"Arsen Darnay, =Karma= (1978, reissued 1979 as =The Karma Affair=),=
 based on
his 1976 "plutonium priests" stories in =Analog= and =Galaxy= as =
mentioned
elsewhere in this thread.

I reviewed the British edition in 1980, and thought it was pretty awful.
Thog's favourite moment came when -- in the distant, mutant-infested =
future
when everyone has been reincarnated -- the woman over whom the two male
leads once quarrelled a lot reappears as a giant telepathic rabbit. Love
nevertheless finds a way. Not many sf novels have giant telepathic rabbit
flagellation scenes.

Dave
--
David Langford
ansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.co.uk/"