On 30-Mar-12 7:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > After this very epic Christopher Priest rant that udupa pointed me to > elsewhere .. > http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1077/hull-0-scunthorpe-3/
I found this amusing, more for the reaction on twitter and the SF blogosphere than the rant itself, which, of course, he is perfectly entitled to. But as one person commented on twitter, "I can see the smoke from the burning bridges from 5000 miles away". > Charlie Stross' twitter feed has a cute puppy display pic and there are > tshirts too. https://twitter.com/#!/cstross/status/185353259169488897 As I was saying in conversation with another listmember, Stross' reaction to this whole thing is excellent. I love the t-shirt idea. To quote him on this topic, "I'm determined not to throw stones. Because in 20 years, I'll probably be in his shoes wrt. someone else." > Sad / funny thing is I don't quite disagree with Priest - at least > because he appears to share my taste for "old style" SF .. Poul > Anderson, Frederick Pohl, various of the older Baen authors etc, and the > few bits of Stross I've skimmed through aren't as much to my taste as > they probably should be. Really? De gustibus and so on, because I don't feel that way. And on the topic of Priest, I thought _The Affirmation_ was awe-inspiringly good, but haven't been able to finish anything else of his. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
