Re: Mainstream Writers who dabbled in SF

On 22 Sep 2003 16:53:59 -0700, Giles wrote:

[...]

>Of course he also wrote 'Fremder' - the notoriously hard to 
>find descendent (I hesitate to use the word sequel) of 'The 
>Medusa Frequency'.  Though 'Fremder' has spaceships and 
>intergalactic travel, it's not hard SF by any stretch. And I 
>haven't actually read it - though I have searched high and low 
>for it :-(
>
>Even tMF has SFnal elements - its flickering questions of 
>reality are derived from a form of neurofeedback/EEG, after 
>all. . . .

One man's opinion: _The Medusa Frequency_ is a good writer 
wasting his talent on extraordinarily banal ideas.  In fact, a 
lot of Hoban fits that description.  I haven't read _Fremder_ 
either, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, it has a key 
character named Helen Gorn.  That alone is fatal.

(The one book of Hoban's that is, I would say, indubitably 
excellent is his contemporary fantasy _The Lion of Boaz-Jachin 
and Jachin-Boaz_--say that fast three times.)


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