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Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jun 21 10:40:50 CDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 10:36:15AM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> I haven't read _Red Thunder_ (but Varley's other stuff is good),
> but I'd recommend against reading _Fallen Angels_ as it may poison
> you against reading the Niven & Pournelle stuff without Flynn.  If
> _Fallen Angel_ was the first one I'd read I'd never have read the
> good stuff, like _Lucifer's Hammer_, _Inferno_, _The Mote in God'
> Eye_, and _Oath of Fealty_.

I admit, _Fallen Angel_ was a bit of a "suck up to the fans" move.
As for Baen, I *really* liked _The Descent of Anansi_.

Bill

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bill bradford
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