Re: Orson Scott Card, best living author PERIOD?

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:43:13 -0400, Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:55:04 +0000 (UTC), mchary@xxxxxxxxx (Michael
>Alan Chary) wrote:
>
>>The guy I'm curious about is Michael Moor***. I am, perhaps, showing my
>>ignorance, but the man has a solid career of writing and editing, not to
>>mention a variety of ancillary projects. He's also getting up there in
>>years. I don't know how influencial other writers consider him, but he was
>>certainly a driving force in the New Wave.
>
>Yeah, I don't know why he hasn't come up as a candidate -- if he
>hasn't; I haven't been in on the deliberations very often. For all I
>know he's been considered and passed over in favor of someone else a
>dozen times.

Possibly for the reason I eventually stopped reading him. HIs fiction is
so recursive and self referential that at a certain point I got sick of
trying to keep track, even though I really liked his style.

I should go back and read the whole thing, and see what I think.

--
Lynn Calvin
lcalvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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