From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Smith's Novels
Date:	Tue, 12 Sep 1995 13:04:01 -0400

On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Paul Wieser wrote:

> At the risk of being roasted over a slow fire I would suggest that
> while the late Nigel Findley produced some fantastic sourcebooks his
> novels, especially the last, were the weakest in the Shadowrun series.

The only problem I had with his books was that in every single
one I can think of off the top of my head, the protagonist always ended
up having casual little chit-chats with CEO's of major megacorps. Now if
you were a CEO of a major megacorp, why would you waste your time on some
dirtbag? The justifications for said wastes of time were, IMHO, pretty
weak.
As far as character development and storytelling goes, though, he
was pretty good at it.

Marc