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To: MarkL

I already self-corrected, Donaldson around Post #63, but thanks. The list’s still a disgrace.


141 posted on 08/11/2011 10:30:01 PM PDT by FredZarguna (No AE Van Vogt? No JG Ballard? But _Wicked_? OK. that's about all I can take... NPR audience...)
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To: FredZarguna
The list’s still a disgrace.

I couldn't agree more. Proof, if any more were needed, that most NPR listeners don't read, and those that do, don't think.

No Eddison, for one. Predated Tolkien by a quarter-century. No Doc Smith. No Laumer. No Poul Anderson, no Piers Anthony, no Harlan Ellison. Neil Gaiman fully 20% of the list? I don't think so. And Wicked, for the love of God? Next to Asimov, Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein, Tolkien, Gibson, and Stephenson, that piece of fatuous, derivative fluff sits like a monkey turd in a bowl of emeralds?

Let us consider the source.

145 posted on 08/11/2011 10:59:16 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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