Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!petsd!pesnta!hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!richardt From: richardt@orstcs.UUCP (richardt) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <7800008@orstcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 19:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: orstcs.7800008 Posted: Fri Jun 28 19:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jul-85 04:45:32 EDT References: <-120700@hound.UUCP> Organization: Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:hound:-120700:orstcs:7800008:37777777600:830 Nf-From: orstcs!richardt Jun 28 13:06:00 1985 >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*?"