Re: Anyone read Stirling's latest?

"Gene Ward Smith" <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> I think Eric Flint's 1632 series is far superior to ISOT.
>>
>> 1632 was entertaining, but the characterization was a bit cardboard and

>> the
>> dialogue was a bit wooden.  While ISOT's characters weren't classically
>> deep, they were memorable and definitely not stereotypes.  In no way 
>> would
> I
>> ever say 1632 was superior to ISOT, but YMMV and all that..
>
> Not to say the 1632 characters were all that good, but ISOT was worse.

Well, that's your opinion.  I thought that especially the 1250BC
characters 
in ISOT were very well written, particularly Odikweos and Isketerol.