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From: gek@ihuxa.UUCP
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Subject: re:The Merit of Silverlock
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Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 11:35:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 11:35:51 1983
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Oh, come now, nominating SILVERLOCK as a great work?! I realize that
Pournelle and other very admirable authors swear by this book, but I
guess nobody's perfect... The work is derivative and poorly developed.
If Meyers' purpose was to write a travelogue, it is a diluted and
weakly executed rip-off of Gulliver's Travels (imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery only if competently done). If Meyers was
trying to show a growth of Silverlock's character, he stopped writing
the book to soon; read Panshin's Rite of Passage for a proper treatment.
Pournelle and Niven's Inferno show Meyers-squared how to emulate a 
great work and still be a creditable work in its own right.

To be fair, let me state my own nomination so as to let others flame me:
Stephen Donaldson's two Thomas Covenant series are great (take that!).

Glenn Kapetansky ihnp4!gek