The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire

Jeff Wilson · 01 Aug 2012, 17:45 · from 2012-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:45:26 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Book of the New Sun vs. A Song of Ice and Fire
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On 8/1/2012 7:36 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> As for Martin's books---does anyone more familiar with them than I think
> there is anything /but /a surface level to them?

Martin has some literary chops, but I am more familiar with his earlier 
short stories, like the Hugo and Neb winning "Sandkings" :

http://www.scribd.com/doc/36218355/1979-Sandkings

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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