Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site birtch.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!felix!birtch!oleg From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Replies Message-ID: <55@birtch.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 17:34:57 EST Article-I.D.: birtch.55 Posted: Sat Oct 26 17:34:57 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 29-Oct-85 01:21:19 EST References: <4045@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) Organization: Birtcher, Santa Ana, Ca. Lines: 50 Summary: In article <4045@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> jmturn@ringwld.UUCP writes: >From: ringwld!jmturn@cca-unix > >> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 85 18:28:52 CDT >> From: William LeFebvre>> Subject: "The Invaders Plan" by L.Ron Hubbard > >> It's out. I've actually seen a copy in a B. Dalton's (or was it >> Walden's? --same thing). It is 500+ pages, standard hardback size >> book, but the typing is very large (about 12 point, I think) and the >> interline spacing is generous, which compensates for the number of >> pages. I wasn't that interested in the book, so I didn't bother >> looking at the price. An interesting aside: one of the preliminary > >Hubbard and Bridge Publications represent (in my opinion) an >insideous attempt to redefine SF and Fandom into Hubbard's own >mold. Their contests for new writers and soon-to-be published >magazine are brutal attacks on the currently weakened SF >mainstream, and an attempt to re-legitimize Hubbard as a founding >father of SF. You should boycott Hubbard and Bridge Publications >for the same reason you don't buy Dolphin skin coats, not because >the coat isn't a good product, but because the producers are >committing an immoral act. > I saw the book and the initial reaction is : bleah!!! The second reaction : hysterical laughter - 10(!) volumes??? The third reaction : Who cares? I looked through the book. It stinks. The writing style is sophomoric. The storyline fails to keep readers attention ( Keith Laumer, he is not) and the topic is REALLY not that interesting to begin with. I have to confess I DID try to read "Battlefield Earth" ( no I did NOT pay for it) and I couldn't forse myself to read past the first 5-6 pages. It just was SO boring and un-attractive! And badly written too. No, Gene Wolfe he is not. I don't completely agree with boycott idea though. I believe we ALL should subscribe to Bridge Publications FREE literature and have them provide us with a steady stream of house-heating materiel. Let them spend their "hard earned" money. -- Disclamer: My employers go to church every Sunday, listen to Country music, and donate money to GOP. I am just a deviant. ----------------------------------+ Don't bother, I'll find the door, "Only through a violent revolution| Oleg Kiselev. can the existing order be pre- |...!trwrb!felix!birtch!oleg served..."-Perfect Student Union |...!{ihnp4|randvax}!ucla-cs!uclapic!oac6!oleg