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- From: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
- Subject: Re: Research in Fiction
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.160541.1197@HQ.Ileaf.COM>
- Summary: Other problems
- Reply-To: hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh)
- Organization: Interleaf, Inc.
- References: <24003@castle.ed.ac.uk> <e9HFoB2w164w@nlbbs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 16:05:41 GMT
- Expires: 8/28/92
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- OK, I never read Forge of God, but I'll accept your analysis of it: no real
- dramatic structure and unbleievable plot.
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- So?
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- Maybe LOCUS et al. saw something you didn't or so. Maybe it was taken as
- something more than it was.
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- Let's see, you seem to be saying that some bad fiction is well-researched, so
- if you blow off the research, you'll produce good fiction?
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- Wrong!
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- Good science fiction has to be both good science and good fiction. You can't
- ignore either leg.
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