Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!gcsherwood From: gcsherwood@watcgl.UUCP (Geoffrey C. Sherwood) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: James P. Hogan, anyone? - (nf) Message-ID: <551@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 09:52:48 EDT Article-I.D.: watcgl.551 Posted: Sun Jul 3 09:52:48 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Jul-83 23:48:10 EDT References: <1248@hp-pcd.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 I have also read just about everything by Hogan. Superb writing. He gives a rational base for all of the superscience he uses in his books. For example, in "Thrice upon a Time", you come away with the feeling that time travel (for information, anyway) is not only possible, but probable if the researchers only look in the direction specified. Being involved with computers, I especially liked "The Two Faces of Tomorrow". Perhaps the ending is a little cutesy, but the pacing is so well done that you move from the time that the computer is first turned on (and everything is well controlled, as it should be), to where the computer is basically at war with the humans without any sharp transitions. Everything follows. Finally his "Inherit the Stars" books are very good. I just finished rereading "Giant's Star", and was amazed at how all of the loose ends were tied up (ends that I had not even realized were loose previously). All in all, he is definitely one of the best modern authors. - geoff sherwood - - U. of Waterloo -