On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:27:33 +0100, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Jun 2004, at 1:41 am, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > Gary Denton wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:24:06 -0500, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Gary Denton wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hugo nominees: > >>>> > >>>> 1972: To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jos� Farmer > >>>> The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin > >>>> Dragonquest by Anne McCaffrey > >>>> A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg > >>>> Jack of Shadows by Roger Zelazny > >>>> <snip>> > I read them all, but rather a long time ago mostly. The Silverberg is > probably the best written, and therefore the one that has aged best. > I would have to read it again, totally forgettable.
> _Lathe of Heaven_ reads like an homage to P K Dick and is atypical of > Le Guin's work. A minor but interesting piece by a major writer. > Agreed > The 'Dragon' series is kind of sub-Darkover with space ponies :) The > first one did quite a nice job of world-building though. > Agreed > Zelazny seems to be ignored and under-rated lately, but _Jack of > Shadows_ is one of his better works. Literary fantasy with a great character but weaknesses in story. I would have liked a better developed novel based on this. > > _To Your Scattered Bodies Go_ has the kind of big gosh-wow sensawonder > premise that regularly won the Hugo for years. Think Ringworld, > Gateway, Rendezvous with Rama... Not just the entire premise, but > everything I can remember about the entire story, can be summed up on a > dust-jacket blurb. "Everyone who ever lived is reincarnated on the > banks of a world-encircling river." "Explorers encounter huge > mysterious alien artifact." "Explorers discover abandoned alien > transport system." "Explorers encounter huge mysterious alien > artifact." Very true. Gary Denton - Sensawonder Maru #1 on google for Easter Lemming science fiction awards _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
