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- From: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: Fandom
- In-Reply-To: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.192003.4017@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Cisco Systems (MIS)
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:20:03 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.031557.15381@datamark.co.nz>, thomas@datamark (Thomas Beagle) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.023028.16069@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson) writes:
- >>
- >>All really provide a feeling of long ages of history beyond what is written.
- >
- >Speaking of such, I think Katherine Kurtz's Deryni novels have a lot
- >going for them.
- >
- >The first three are a bit amateurish but her style improves a lot -
- >and things have been very well thought out with a tight history and
- >other such things.
-
- Folks keep bringing up works that I like a great deal.
-
- Kurtz is excellent, and is very much *not* a clone universe. But the sense, as
- opposed to the *use*, of history is less, IMO.
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-