Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:38:38 -0500
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
CC: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Silverberg on Clarke
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> It begins:
>
> "The merits of most of the science fiction of Arthur C. Clarke have
> largely escaped me. There is no denying the overwhelming visionary
<snip>
> conceptual inventiveness, as dull, slow, and passionless. That they
> should have enjoyed such great commercial success and gobbled up so many
> Hugo and Nebula awards left me baffled."

I'm with him.  I read those books, but found them not to be very
memorable.  There are a number of authors who wrote much better stories,
some with even bigger ideas, but who haven't gotten a fraction of the
acclaim.

-- Mike B.