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From: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Wu and Fabricant (actually Alexei Panshin)
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 10:43:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 10:43:03 1985
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Reply-To: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan)
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Summary: Villiers books by A. Panshin, C. Panshin is his wife

In article <1162@sdcsvax.UUCP> rose@sdcsvax.UUCP (Dan rose) writes:
> . . . I came across three books:  _Masque World_,
>_The Thurb Revolution_, and _Starwell_, which were supposed to
>be a kind of James-Bond-in-space series with hero Anthony Villiers.
>They were listed as being by Alexei and Cory Panshin.  
. . . [ Several lines saying that Dan didn't like them. ]
> . . .  I don't know who Cory
>Panshin is -- son, I suspect -- but I bet he or she wrote 95%
>of this and got Alexei to agree to add his name to the cover.
> . . .
>I guess this is the old problem of who finds what funny, but
>my vote is a strong NO.

I'm fairly sure that my copies of all the Villiers books were published under
Alexei's name before he married Cory.  I agree that it's the old problem of
who finds what funny -- I happen to think that these books are silly and
charming, and suggest finding one and reading it before rushing out to get
the others.  I think that they should appeal to the same sort of twisted mind
that likes Daniel Pinkwater's stuff.  To further calibrate my taste versus
yours, let me say that I find Douglas Adams's stuff (Hitchhiker's Guide, etc.)
silly, but tedious and unfunny.
-- 
Morris M. Keesan
keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA
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