Re: guess who?

On Apr 1, 7:40 pm, johan.g.lar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> On Apr 1, 8:27 pm, Will in New Haven <bill.re...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> > > > "We might already be reveling in our seizure of a valuable ****p
and
> > > > cargo, celebrating by absorbing costly essences and engaging in
> > > > brutally non-consensual *****c entertainments of a type I find
deeply
> > > > gratifying but which are difficult to arrange on a commercial
basis.
> > > > Why this delay?"
>
> > > This quote is from "In the Courts of the Crimson Kings" by S.M.
> > > Stirling.
>
> > I don't _think_ I want to read it.
>
> It's sci-fi pulp adventure, and deliberately written to be exactly
> that. I'm not sorry I read it, but I do wish I'd waited for the
> paperback.

I liked quite a bit of Stirling, including the very early Fifth
Millenium collaborations that are probably all out of print. I just
stopped reading him after a few pages of <Dies the Fire> and I don't
even know why.

--
Will in New Haven



>
> Johan Larson