From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Getting mooned ?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:05:44 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

    Lee Strong demonstrates his literary lunacy by admitting that he is
reading Gardner F. Fox's _Kyrik Fights the Demon World_, having previously
read the same author's Kother, Barbarian Swordsman series.  While Kyrik
nominally inhabits a prehistoric Earth called Terra, and Kothar inhabits a
far future planet Yarth, both planets have the same number of moons.  In
some chapters, two moons are in the sky while in other chapters **the** moon
is in the sky, never **a** moon.  None of these moons have names.  Mr. Fox
has other problems as well.  I believe that the technical term for this is
called "hack writing."  These books are going into the discard box as fast
as I finish them.
    Incidentally, is there a rule that all barbarian heroes must be (1)
northern (2) swordsmen?  Robert E. Howard, Garder F. Fox, John Jakes, Lin
Carter and Fritz Lieber **all** have northern swordswingers as their heroes,
altho Lieber apparently broke the rule by allowing half of his heroes to
come from a temperate urban setting.  In the case of Carter's Thongor of
Lemuria, this is particularly idiotic since Carter specifically states that
the imaginary continent of Lemuria is south of prehistoric Earth's equator
yet his hero's icebound homeland is north of the scene of the principal
action and therefore presumably closer to the equator.  The mountains of
ancient Lemuria must have been pretty darn tall to support a permanent
snowcap while sitting on or near the equator.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 11:03 AM
To: wsfalist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Getting mooned ?

Lee Strong caused monitors to glow with:

>It happens to us mortals as well.  I am currently reading a rather
>forgettable series of fantasy novels in which the planet seems to
>have two co-orbital moons in odd numbered chapters and a
>single moon in even numbered chapters.

Ok, so what wonders of western literature you destroying brain cells with?

mjw