Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:44:24 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: James P. Hogan (1941 - 2010)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"And then the witch doctor, he told me what to do
He said that ....":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky

mjw

>>> Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> 07/14/10 12:27 AM >>>
   I don't remember any of his later novels.    What was
Velikovskyism?

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:12:04 -0400 (EDT)
  "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> James P. Hogan was found dead at home on July 12
>according to his
> literary agent.
>
> He was one of my favorite authors in the '80s and '90s.
> But then he
> got obsessed with Velikovskyism, making his later novels
>unreadable.
> So much for my hopes that he would eventually outgrow
>that phase and
> return to good writing.
>