From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Getting mooned ?
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:09:15 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:05 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Getting mooned ?

> 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.

Fox was primarily a hack comic book scripter, mostly for DC comics.   He
wrote much of their "SF" comics (STRANGE ADVENTURES, MYSTERY IN SPACE),
ripping off his betters at every turn.   His books are uniformly awful.

My question to you is, having read a previous book by Fox, why did you
buy/read another?

--Ted White