Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!packard!desoto!cbdkc1!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: A.E. Van Vogt's 3rd Null-A Novel Message-ID: <1300@hound.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 16:41:43 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1300 Posted: Sun Aug 11 16:41:43 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Aug-85 01:33:20 EDT References: <3076@topaz.ARPA> <1356@uwmacc.UUCP>, <1095@umcp-cs.UUCP> <3165@teklabs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 [] I can't think of anything AEVV has written in recent years that he didn't blow. If anyone can enlighten me, please do so for I have given up on the author of the Null-A books and the first book I remember staying up all night to finish, The House That Stood Still. I got stuck after 76 pages of Children of Tomorrow and haven't been able to touch him since. AEVV certainly was formative for me in the middle '40s but I figured him as over the hill worse even than Doc Smith was near the end. Please tell me where I'm wrong. Master-reads are hard to find. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg