Bad COL49?

[Tom Stanton]

At 11:14 AM 3/20/97 -0600, LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:
>A thought about COL49.  A quick re-look reminded me that there are indeed
>some wonderful things in it, but I think TRP's own disappointment can be
>seen in at least two elements: 1) characters [snip]...>2) narration

Maybe TRP's disappointment comes from the fact it is so accessible.
I don't think he set off to write a second rate work, but the novella is 
easier to digest than anything else he's written (IMHO) and in the
end it is neither as abstract as V nor as controversial as GR. By the
time "Slow Learner" arrives he's distancing himself from the little
book...