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From: chabot@miles.DEC (Bits is bits)
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Subject: Re: Gregory Benford
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 14:16:32 EDT
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> -- Josh Susser <Susser.pasa@Xerox.arpa>
> /In the Ocean of Night/ is set in the near future, and involves
> humankind's first contacts with alien intelligence.  As science fiction,
> this book is very believable.  As a novel, this book is a work of art.
> While I was slightly annoyed at the way Benford chose to end this book,...

Benford consistently fails on this point: endings.

If you can't end it properly, it's not art, it's not a novel.

L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-AMBER!chabot   chabot%AMBER.dec@decwrl.arpa