On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:48 PM, John Williams wrote:
I just checked the reviews on the book you mentioned, and the bad reviews talk about many of the same problems that you mentioned.
Yes, they do -- but unfortch, I didn't have net access at the time I was considering. I was thinking of the first couple of Dune revisions and how they really weren't that godawful, and ... and well...
It just galls me -- galls, I say! -- to think that KJA is classed as "SF" along with Le Guin. Delany, Lem and Certain Other Writers whom we can think of, without any real attempt made at distinguishing *quality*.
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