Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!bbncc5!keesan From: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Wu and Fabricant (actually Alexei Panshin) Message-ID: <880@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 10:43:03 EST Article-I.D.: bbncc5.880 Posted: Mon Oct 28 10:43:03 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:47:22 EST References: <392@bocklin.UUCP> <1162@sdcsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: keesan@bbncc5.UUCP (Morris M. Keesan) Distribution: net Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 25 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 {decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan