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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: What should be your FIRST sf book ???
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 22:19:20 EDT
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In article <12459@styx.UUCP> mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) writes:
>I'd feel sort of an obligation to try to break the spaceship/time-travel
>stereotype. To that end, how about John Varley's THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION. 
>This is one of his best works -- perhaps the finest and most moving novella 
>ever written. What's more, it is the title piece in a really first-class 
>collection of SF novelettes and story stories.  All the stories are
>very accessible to casual readers; you don't have to have a background
>in SF cliches or history. 

The only quibble I have with it is that Varley tends to deal with very
adult and/or sexual images and themes, sometimes rather graphically (never
in an obscene obligatory manner, though). Some groups of people prefer not
to handle these kinds of work, and shouldn't be handed them unneccessarily.
-- 
Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!chuqui

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