Re: Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90

neverland@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Pete) writes:
>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!

I don't know if I'd go quite that far, but Benford seems completely unable
to sustain a series, and if he ends up in the far future, you quickly
enter
wanting to pluck out your eyes with a fondue fork instead of reading it
territory. *
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* PV   something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
       like corkscrews.