Re: Fritz Leiber's best, Re: Bungee the Spider

Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.sf.written.]
>On 2005-09-13, Bateau <Gamera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I read that quite a while ago. I didn't like it either. Now that I think
>> of it none of the stories in The Mind Spider And Others and The Book of
>> Fritz Leiber stood out as being very good to me. Some of them are even
>> bad.
>
>I was entirely unimpressed by "The Book of Fritz Leiber" as well. The
>only way I could rationalize it given the praise I've heard for his
>writing is that it contains "previously uncollected" writings, which I
>interpreted as "previously uncollected for good reason".

I have just read one and a half books of Frederik Pohl's short stories.
A couple of times I stopped half way through a story and thought "I am
really enjoying this much better than that other crap." It's my kind of
sci fi. It's about ideas. It's not just about people with a few sci fi
trappings in the background. I was getting really sick of that ***.
I like sci fi you can sit there and think about for a while after you've
read it.
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