Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:20:42 -0600
Subject: Re: (urth) sf works featuring spectrum of alien bio-chemistries
From: Adam Stephanides 

on 3/27/02 1:17 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes at ddanehy@siebel.com wrote:

> Chalker as a writer
> is about a step above Piers Anthony: he _recognizes_ he's writing
> potboilers (unlike Anthony, which regards itself as an Artist)

I don't know about that.  I once looked at his afterword to a collection of
his short stories (DANCE BAND ON THE TITANIC, iirc), and it was pretty
self-important: he claimed that fans recognized him as the master of the
transformation story, just as Heinlein was the master of the time-travel
paradox story; and he talked about his stories of women magically
transformed into sex slaves as if they were serious warnings against women's
oppression (again, iirc).

--Adam


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