Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!rjohnson From: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson) Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics Subject: Re: What's Good At Marvel Message-ID: <4251@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Date: 14 Dec 90 16:36:41 GMT References: <18145@shlump.nac.dec.com> <51274@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Reply-To: rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu (R o d Johnson) Organization: Institute of Pataphysics Lines: 28 In article <51274@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v116r8ac@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes: >In article , hm0f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hugh Moore) writes... >>CJ Cherryh couldn't write her way into a wet paper bag, much less out. >You most certainly are mad. To believe such nonsense as you appear to, one >would have to be extremely out of his mind. CJ Cherryh is one of the best >authors there is, right next to Diane Duane, David Eddings, Gael Baudino, >and too many more for me to remember. To beleive that CJC has no talent, >you would have to be out of your mind - if, that is, you have one. Well, I think Hugh's comment was bit hyperbolic, perhaps, but to call Cherryh "one of the best out there" is also a bit much. I like Cherryh, and I think she's grown hugely as a writer, but she's still not among the truly great. Jerry's list was a good one: Crowley, Wolfe, LeGuin, Disch, Dick, Wilhelm, Tiptree, Ellison, et al. (the list bears repeating, I think). Have you read any of those people? To put Diane Duane and *David Eddings* in the top rank of SF writers, My God. It's overdoing it to say Cherryh has no talent, but it might be nearer the mark to say you have no taste. (Eddings. . . the mind reels.) -- * Rod Johnson * rjohnson@vela.acs.oakland.edu * (313) 650 2315 * "Become FUEL, you FOSSILS!" --Ambush Bug