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From: gcsherwood@watcgl.UUCP (Geoffrey C. Sherwood)
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Subject: Re: James P. Hogan, anyone? - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 3-Jul-83 09:52:48 EDT
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	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 -