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From: cgf@infinet.UUCP (Chris Faylor)
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Subject: Re: Beyond the Dar El Harb;  RIP-OFF WARNING!
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 23:27:38 EDT
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In article <614@lasspvax.UUCP> cpf@lasspvax.UUCP (Courtenay Footman) writes:

>"Beyond the Dar El Harb" by Gorden Dickson (I may have the title 
>slightly wrong) is a sequel to "Jamie the Red", by Dickson and Green.
>What is not apparent from cover, front blurb, or rear blurb is that it
>is not a novel, but a novella;  the remaining two thirds of the book
>are two mediocre Dickson stories that have been published several
>times before.

The title is _Beyond the Dar Al~Harb_ and I quite agree: it is a rip-off.
It was sort of like running head on into a brick wall when I turned the
page and the setting suddenly changed from medieval Middle East to the
interior of a space ship.

I haven't made the mistake of buying a book of short stories thinking
it was a novel for quite some time.  There is NO indication that this
is not a full length novel anywhere on the jacket or front page.
There oughtta be a law.
-- 
			-cgf-

I feel more like I do now than I did when I first got here.

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