In article <slrnfu3l9h.ups.rogblake10@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Roger Blake <rogblake10@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <0sl3u3puuk7okag83g3c1pnbpacadtup3d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jack Bohn wrote:
[...]
>
>I have that book, a Science Fiction Book Club edition from the late
1960s,
>and am currently re-reading "Against the Fall of Night." (I don't think
>I ever got around to "The City and the Stars.")
>
>> Whatever you do, do NOT read the sequel!
>
>Just how bad is it?
>
Put it this way. After (unfortunately) looking forward to, and buying
the hardcover of, Benford's "sequel", I resolved never again even to
open anything by him. Been stuffed into a box, awaiting a trip to
Half-Price Books, for years. Judging by the apparently unanimous
opinion, though, maybe even they won't want it!
Mercifully the memory is fading, but he completely destroyed the
sensawunda of Clarke's story, adding in a whole bunch of odd biology
and so on.
-- Pete --
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