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- From: YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
- Subject: Re: modern space opera (was: Diamond-hard SF)
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- References: <Uf2FP6C00WCZ8iA1s4@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov19.185324.6105@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <28448@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:45:32 EST
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- In article <28448@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- gtclark@festival.ed.ac.uk (G T Clark) writes:
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- >
- > I've just finished reading "Dying of the Light" by George R R
- >Martin,which is definitely an SO.It was actually written in the
- >mid-seventies,but apparently he's written some more in the same vein.
- >He's also written Fevre Dream,which is a vampire novel,and some shorts,
- >including one which won a Hugo.His most famous piece,as far as I can
- >tell, is Sandkings,a short story which everyone should have read.Another
- >of his shorts,Nightriders,has apparently been filmed,but I don't know if
- >the film was any good.
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- I thought the name of the short story was _Nightflyers_; not Nightriders.
- IMHO Nightflyers was a better story than _Sandkings_. I remember reading
- a bunch of George R.R. Martin stories from the '70s a few years ago, and
- I remember enjoying them immensely.
- However, the book of his that blew me away was _The Armageddon Rag_
- (NOT SF; closer to horror, but not quite). I'm not exactly a fan of '60s
- culture and politics, but they did make better rock and roll back then for
- the most part.
-
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