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From: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Larry, you're no Jerry Pournelle...
Summary: Almost entirely unrelated to Amigas.
Message-ID: <11958@well.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 08:17:29 GMT
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Reply-To: shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson)
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+-- elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) writes:
| 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 remember reading a story by Pournelle only -- no Niven -- and it was
pretty awful.  Like "Mote in God's Eye," it described Earth history as
including a period called the "Co-dominion," a joint rule between USA
and Russia.  I thought that was the dumbest idea in the whole "God's
Eye" book.  In the Pournelle short story, compared to the other ideas
there, it was probably the best.
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		Stuart Ferguson		(shf@well.UUCP)
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