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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 16:28:03 EDT
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From: orstcs!richardt (richardt)

>Try reading some E.E "Doc" Smith ... You'll notice some resemblance.

     Only if Star Smashers is awfully good satire.  Smith's work falls
into a class all by itself.  It can justifiably be considered the 
ultimate in space opera.  I'll admit that its not high science fiction
in the same sense as "The Postman" (David Brin) but it is high art ...
taking a set of basic assumptions which are shaky at best and a plot line
which is older than the Greeks, the good old heroic fantasy, and coming
out with a set of books which are logical, hold together well, and are
good, if not excellent, science fiction.  Its still sci-fi, but its the
best sci-fi you're likely to read in a long time ... although the
Stainless Steel Rat books come in as a close second or third.

					       orstcs/richardt
"If I'm human, what are *YOU*?"