From: utzoo!decvax!cwruecmp!glassner
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Roger Zelazny and ReReVenus
Article-I.D.: cwruecmp.497
Posted: Sun Feb 20 14:24:41 1983
Received: Mon Feb 21 02:54:02 1983

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Too bad the stories Farmer writes under his own name aren't any better.
Farmer is one of my least liked authors.  The "climax" of his
Riverworld series was particularly bad.  I often wonder what would have
happened if the Riverworld idea had been handled by someone like
Clavell, Pynchon, etc.
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	Well, I agree to a point.  More specifically, though,
the ending to Venus is about the worst ending of any book I
have read in recent memory.  When I read those final lines I
really felt like the writer had just gotten tired of writing
the story and stopped - sort of like, "...and then I woke up."
	Concerning Riverworld, I really like the first book in
the series (To Your Scattered Bodies Go), but I really think
it got much worse as it went on.  The Magic Labyrinth (sp?)
also struck me as a cop-out ... I should have guessed both
would be written by the same guy.

	Totally aside from that subject, one of my favourite
writers (from whom I have not seen anything in a while) is
Roger Zelazny.  He has a short story (I think in one of the
Alpha anthologies (Bob Silverberg, ed?)) about the future
of the Earth in which a robot attempts to really understand
its former masters (all the people are dead in a nuclear war)
by creating a new person ... very stylish, very clean, and
very enjoyable.

	-Andrew
	 decvax!cwruecmp!glassner