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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Larry, you're no Jerry Pournelle...
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Date: 31 May 89 05:32:36 GMT
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in article <226@maytag.waterloo.edu>, giguere@aries5 (Eric Giguere) says:
> To quote a letter in the Transactor for the Amiga, May 1989,
> to Larry Phillips (yes, the one on the net):
>     "You can hardly accuse Jerry Pournelle of lacking imagination.
>      And sir, you're no Jerry Pournelle."
> What a strange compliment in the middle of an otherwise caustic      
> letter. :-) 

Maybe it was an attempt at satire? (it takes an aweful LOW person to
be worse than Jerry Pournelle ;-).

Actually, Jerry Pournelle isn't a bad science fiction writer. Not a
great one, but there's plenty worse (Piers Anthony, anybody?). Perhaps
the writer of the letter is a science fiction fan, and was referring
to the imagination needed to write a science fiction novel (although
there are some who insist that any imagination in Pournelle's novels
comes from Larry Niven). 
    I wouldn't knock Pournelle's imagination too badly if I were you.
It makes him a six-figure living, doesn't it? Even if he never uses it
when it comes to computers....

> Well, at least it means that the TransAmi is being read,
> even if its authors aren't being paid... *sigh*....

So what else is new? :-}. (and yes, I have every issue of TransAmi
except for the first two). 

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