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Subject: Tucker Review
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:19:21 EDT
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From: Dave Godwin 


Mr. Tucker,
	Apparently you've not read much of Mr. Robinson's work.  I will not
argue with your viewpoint; my purpose in life is not to sway others to think
the way I think.  But, damn, you sure pick a nasty way to describe a writer
who places the use of 'heart and emotions', as you aproximately put it, above
most of the other aspects in his work.  
	Robinson does not write 'five-guys-in-a-bar-telling-bad-puns' stories.
Ever read Stardance ?  Most folks liked it well enough to give it a Hugo.  And
a Nebula.  And a couple of other things.  Have you ever met the man ?  No, you
have not, or you would not be confusing his WRITING with his self.  There was
a long discussion on this bboard quite recently on this very problem.
	So please, stop flaming needlessly.  Clear thinking is always welcome
here; the 'barbarianism', as you put it, is not.

				David Godwin
				UC Irvine