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Subject: Re: Piers Anthony - MACROSCOPE
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Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 13:34:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 24 13:34:48 1984
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Nf-From: ecn-ee!hsut    Sep 24 11:47:00 1984



         I agree. Macroscope is probably the best thing Piers Anthony
has ever written (what has he put out since then that's even close?)
I, too, read it several years ago and can only remember the 
intriguing split personality sequences and the hallucinatory
battle scenes near the end which compare well with Zelazny. Anthony
also wrote a nice story for Harlan Ellison's "Again, Dangerous
Visions" called In The Barn, which is definitely worth reading. I
haven't been impressed with his recent stuff. Looks like a classic
case of a promising young talent's degeneration into hackhood...


                                     Bill Hsu
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