From:	Thomas Hirt <kragan@***.UVIC.CA>
Subject:	Re: Help!
Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 1994 22:54:15 PST

Hi there. The Whistler said

>BLASPEHMY!!! I honestly don't understand how you can make those
>statements, Mr. Hayden. There is a very clear plot, one which is only
>the first part of a rough trilogy (Count Zero then Mona Lisa Overdrive),
>the charaters are actually somewhat complex, and it IS the novel that
>really started the whole Cyberpunk movement, not only in literature but
>in real life also. Of course, now it is refered to as the Post-Modern
>movement, but who cares.

Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy is pretty well accepted as the start
of modern-day fantasy writing. To me, it is general a boring book; ie.
just because it started the movement is no reason for it to be a good book.
I don't much like Gibson's writing either. Some better authors picked up
the ball and ran with it. All the more power to them.

Just my thoughts,
Blackest Night
AKA Tom Hirt.


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of locomotion." Kryton, Red Dwarf


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