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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Gene Wolfe: Book of the New Sun
Message-ID: <527@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 13:33:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 13:33:27 1986
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Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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In article <1808@hammer.UUCP> patcl@hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy) writes:
>>Insert rasberry here...
>>I read Shadow of the Torturer and thought it was horrible.
>
>I'll second that!  This was an outstandingly bad novel.
>Yet it seems that every year or so the Wulf-cultists must
>issue forth onto the net to demonstrate why there's such
>a large and uncritical market for so much bad SF.

This "cult" happens to include more than half of the SFWA, the Science
Fiction Writers of America, as evidenced by the Nebula selections.  I would
hardly call the SFWA uncritical, or large for that matter.  Perhaps the
writers know something you don't?  (There, we're even insult for insult.)

Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
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