Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:36:07 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Getting mooned ?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>twhite8 at cox.net 02/03/04 06:09PM
>----- 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?

Higher tolerance for pain?

I know mine is low.  Eons ago I received from Del Rey Books a galley of =
"Sword of Shanara.  I nearly tossed the book across the room when the =
Gandalf clone appeared.  Brooks had (re)named him Alanon.

At that point I realized it was time to move along . . .

The one saving grace of the Fox novels are that they are short - 50,000 =
words or less?

Well . . . there's always R. Lionel Fanthorpe . . .

mjw

>
>--Ted White
>