Sorry to digress slightly, but the absolute worst case of collaboration was a book my dear wife bought me for a beach read. It was by Piers Anthony and some other guy. It's called "Spider Legs," and holds my personal record for worst book ever read. It was so bad I had to finish it just because it was hard to believe it was ever put into print instead of sent back to the depths of Hell by the publisher.
It's basically "Jaws" but with a giant spider crab. Why do good authors do that? http://www.amazon.com/Spider-Legs-Fantasy-Piers-Anthony/dp/0812564898 On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Sal Armoniac <[email protected]> wrote: > Asimov also declined. I can't stand his later novels. Clarke's quality > dropped because he started collaborating with less skillful writers. It > bothers me, even, that he wrote his two novels 2001 and 2010 in > collaboration with filmmakers. Kubrick's film is far better, and has reached > more people than Clarke's novel, which is a let down after seeing the > film. I'm having a hard time teaching him. > Sally > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:48 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Blather. Most of the writers at the high age range of that chart >> started publishing many years before such a thing as a Hugo Award for >> novels existed. Make 1955 your base line (when the Hugos started being >> awarded annually) instead of first published work and the whole chart >> shifts downward. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
