Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!kdale From: kdale@minet-vhn-em.arpa Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Music in SF (& apologies to all) Message-ID: <3170@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 14:45:46 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3170 Posted: Wed Aug 7 14:45:46 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 22:08:29 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 From: Keith DaleAt least when I goof up, I do it in a really big way: >>From: kdale @ MINET-VHN-EM >>One story that I haven't seen mentioned is: >>Cherryh's "Crystal Singer" (it *was* Cherryh, wasn't it?) From that innocent posting I received more hate mail, aspersions, and such than I would have believed possible. Just when I thought it was safe to show myself in public again, I got this zinger: >From: Paula_S._Sanch%Wayne-MTS%UMich-MTS.Mailnet@MULTICS.ARPA >May St. Patrick forgive you for the mortal insult to Erin. I will >struggle to do the same. I concede that McCaffrey may be a 'low >taste' writer, but she can at least imbue her characters with some >personality--something at which Cherryh fails utterly. I am abashed, chagrinned, and properly chastened. I will hereby reread everything that I have by Anne McCaffrey, get all that I don't have, appeal to St. Patrick for forgiveness (and to be cured of my lousy memory), and make a pilgrimage this year to the land of my grandfather (and grandmother, of course)! My apologies to all!! Keith M. Dale P.S. - One mystery is cleared up: I now know why I thought Cherryh was so damn good! Uh, oh...I think I just opened myself up to a new round of flaming...oh, well *sigh* ...