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[Jonathan Goodwin]

I thought I did in the post, but here it is again: I think the book
(and several others) rely on the author's well-earned reputation for
subtlety to mask or adorn what are essentially undeveloped
pot-boilers. The time-travel aspect of Pirate Freedom illustrates this
nicely, I think.

Dozois's introduction to FHC in _Modern Classics of Science Fiction_
(viewable via google books) might shed some additional
sociology-of-publishing light on this.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:32 AM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> So why don't you like the book, Jon? I understand from your article that
> you don't like it: that is abundantly obvious. But I think a review of
> this nature would be more useful if you would include a paragraph - even
> half a paragraph - where you give your reasons for not liking it.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Of course, you may just be a ouanquerre.
>
>
>
> .
>
>
>> I believe I came to that conclusion a few years ago myself.
>>
>> I recently made some disappointed comments on Pirate Freedom:
>>
>> http://www.jgoodwin.net/?p=647
>>
>> How many of you agree that the Wolfe of Fifth Head, Peace, New Sun,
>> Endangered Species (partially), and Death of Dr. Island and OS and OS
>> is not even recognizably the same author as that of Pirate Freedom, An
>> Evil Guest, or the Short Sun? (Shared concerns, yes. The quality of
>> execution, however, is more like that of a bad imitator.)
>>
>>> There are quite a few advocates (including Dave Tallman on the wiki) of
>>> the
>>> theory that the narrator is himself a puppet, dismissed by this
>>> commentator.
>>> I don't buy it myself either, buit it is slightly nagging...
>>>
>>> best,
>>>
>>> Mo
>>>
>>>
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