Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 07:38:44 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Iain M. Banks
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One of many things I've been complaining about for decades. For example, =

Lessing's Chroncicles of Canopus in Argus....*

Excerpt:
Now, even the most gifted literary author will be sufficiently aware of
the clich=E9s of the detective story not to let an initial burst of
enthusiasm for a new idea involving any of them get beyond the limits of =

his or her own cranium, and even if they were foolish enough to suggest
something on these lines to their agent or editor they'd immediately be
informed that It's Been Done . . . in fact, It's Been Done to the Point
of Being a Joke . . . and so all the above never happens.

Or at least, it never happens quite as described; substitute the phrase
"science fiction" for the word "detective", delete the 1930s
murder-mystery novel clich=E9s and insert some 30s science fiction clich=E9=
s
and I get the impression this scenario has indeed played out,
--- end excerpt ---

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/13/iain-banks-science-fiction-g=
enre>

mark, * has a copy of the Shaver Mysteries

--
Hon. Pres. Medvedev,

    If Russia still has labor camps in Siberia, might there be room in
them for a number of gentleman we have here, who have been working on
Wall St.....