Re: Harry Potter and Adults

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian M. Scott) wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:39:25 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Darkhawk (H. Nicoll)) wrote:
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>>Joshua P. Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> I confess that I've never been able to get into Cherryh, and for me
>>> that's rare, since I like most science fiction. As I recall, it wasn't
>>> that I couldn't follow her intricacies as much as it was that I didn't
>>> understand what purpose they served -- I sort of had the impression
>>> that she was doing world building for the sake of world building . . .
>
>>Clearly you haven't read her work in sufficient depth to appreciate it.
>
><spork!>
>
>It occurs to me that Cherryh is the only writer of sf (who comes
>to mind at the moment, anyway) whose writing occasionally gives
>me the impression of a genuinely formidable intelligence.  There
>are quite a few who are obviously very knowledgeable and very
>intelligent, but their writing somehow isn't quite so
>overpowering in that respect.  I'm damned if I know just what
>produces the effect, though.
>

Gene Wolfe doesn't give you that effect?

-David