Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site calmasd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!calmasd!gail From: gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Brin, Sagan, etc. Message-ID: <576@calmasd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 14:29:37 EDT Article-I.D.: calmasd.576 Posted: Fri Sep 27 14:29:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 05:16:21 EDT References: <5703@tekecs.UUCP> <27800018@ISM780B.UUCP> Reply-To: gail@calmasd.UUCP (Gail B. Hanrahan) Organization: Calma Company, San Diego, CA Lines: 25 In article <27800018@ISM780B.UUCP> jimb@ISM780B.UUCP writes: >I happen to agree with you about Greg Bear; he paints nice pictures that have >a high degree of technical verisimilitude. (I've talked to the man and he >has a manic sense of research and does *not* have a science degree or job. >As far as I know, he's a full time fiction writer, which is a truly >endangered species.) But as nice (and moving!) as the pictures are, they >haven't (yet) approached the breathtaking grandness of Brin or Wolfe. If you haven't read them yet, read _Eon_ (just out in hardback), or _Blood Music_ (also just out in hardback), or _The Infinity Concerto_ (paperback, 1984), all by Greg Bear. Dave Brin's books are lots of fun, I enjoyed them tremendously, but Greg's books consistently have more depth, and are still entertaining. _Eon_ in particular really blew me away. _The Infinity Concerto_ deserves a second reading. I suppose I should mention that these folks are both good friends... -- Gail Bayley Hanrahan Calma Company, San Diego {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!gail Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com