NP: Stephen Baxter

[Michael Richard]

I read _Raft_ and I like it a lot.  I like the ideas and the weird 
universe in which it is set.  I read _Timelike Infnity_ and now I
can't bring myself to try anything imore by him: it's awful.

There seem to be two big camps, and you either love or loathe him.
I don't really know which side I come down on.  When I asked about
the two I have read, I never really got an answer.

He is Canadian, and has won Hugos.  Antifans point out this is when
the convention is in Canada.  Many of his novels are fat, and feature
cute dinosaurs in the cover, which furthers my lack of interest.


Now I'm reading _Wizard of the Crow_ by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and I 
recommend it highly.