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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Wolfe the best?
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 10:00:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 10:00:17 1986
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Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
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>....  Philip Dick is also wonderful, but he's not writing
>much these days....
How do you know?  Just because he's not getting much published doesn't
mean he's not writing (as I know to my regret.)  Maybe the mail service
is not very efffective from where he is?

>....  (One of my favorite small things about all the authors mentioned
>above is that they don't feel a need to barrage their readers with unpron-
>ounceable names for characters and places; they have far less stagey ways of
>conveying alienness.)

On the other hand, expecting alien races with alien physiologies to have
nice easily-pronouncable names is pretty blatantly species-chauvinistic.


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			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)