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I grew up in Naperville, the next town closer to Chicago than Aurora. And I'll note that Barrington Hills was indeed famous as a town where rich people lived -- the Chicago Sun-Ti…
27 Aug 2001, 20:41
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_The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities_ I have heard that rumour as well -- from sufficiently reputable sources that I believe it quite possibly true, but couched in such t…
01 Aug 2001, 22:46
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Attributing it to "St. John" is controversial as well, as contemporary scholarship seems to agree that John of Patmos, the author of Revelation, is not the apostle John.…
16 Apr 2000, 19:46
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another writer often accused of misogyny is Kingsley Amis, and I read his novel _The Russian Girl_ at about the same time I read "The Ziggurat". It struck me that the portrayal of…
27 Jan 2000, 22:19
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That sort of sentence is very characteristic of Clute. It's just his style. By the way, if anyone wants to read a novel more confusing (though, alas, less rewarding) than Wolfe a…
12 Nov 1999, 03:12
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That may have been me, if you saw it on rec.arts.sf.written. In that case, I was generalizing from personal experience, in that the novella "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" was the fi…
11 Nov 1999, 04:23
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I just got my the latest New York Review of Science Fiction, which includes a fine (and in my opinion largely correct) review of _Exodus of the Long Sun_ (or actually of _The Book …
09 Jun 1997, 16:05
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