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Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest   V8 #49
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Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 21:54:00 EDT
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From:  Greg Skinner <Uc.Gds at MIT-EECS at MIT-MC>

Re: rlb's flame about Heinlein, Covenant, Tolkien etc...

Since I was the person who touched off the whole issue of names in
SF/fantasy, let me clarify a few things.  First of all, I never said
that "I don't like the TC series", or "I think Tolkien is a saint", or
"I think Heinlein is horrible".  I was just pointing out the
similarities between LotR and the TC series -- not for the sake of
criticism but for the sake of comparison.  I had noticed a general
similarity between works of fantasy fiction and I merely sought
information.  It will come in useful if I ever decide to write a
fantasy novel (which is not an impossibility, since I don't want to do
computer science for the rest of my life).

At any rate, I have read LotR and the Silmarillion many times over and
they are my all-time favorite books.  I also happen to like the TC
series a lot, now that I have gotten to the second book of the first
trilogy.  (I even make my INQUIR comments a quote from the TC
series!!)  And, regardless of how wordy Heinlein was in NotB, I still
enjoyed the idea of alternate universes.

Now that you know that I am not a Tolkien, Donaldson or
Heinlein-hater, I hope the flamage caused by my entry will be
expunged.

--bo (reply to gds@xx after Aug 22)
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