Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:45:55 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: James P. Hogan (1941 - 2010)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch 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.

The novel of his I most liked was his earliest, The Genesis Machine. You got
the feel of real scientists doing real science, and the *real* excitement of that.

 mark
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