From: "cilluff1@optonline.net" 
Subject: RE: (urth) The Progeny
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:03:48 -0500

VanderMeer is fantastic, Dradin, In Love and the rest of City of Saints an=
d
Madmen provides the most immersive, fully realized world I've found since
TBOTNS=2E =20

I'm in the middle of Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, a
collection of all the author's published short stories, it's quite good=2E=
=20
Jonathan Carroll is good too=2E  Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville=
, I
thought was mostly very interesting, detailed and enthralling, but in part=
s
seemed to bite off more than it could chew (every once in a while it hit
you over the head too much, I would think "now I know how he writes such
large books so quickly, he doesn't edit")=2E=20

Original Message:
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From: MBS 808 mbs808@yahoo=2Ecom
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:50:00 -0800 (PST)
To: urth@urth=2Enet
Subject: (urth) The Progeny



GW has been producing excellent works for 30 years now
and his writing has deserved the (minute) attention we
give it=2E

Who, of the "younger" generation, might compare?

PS - a random rave months ago about Jeff Vandermeer on
this list is much appreciated=2E  He's great!

Any thoughts on Steven Erikson or Mary Gentle?

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