NP: Stephen Baxter

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Baxter is not Canadian -- he is British. Are you perhaps mixing him up with 
Robert Sawyer, who IS Canadian and who did a trilogy about a planet of 
intelligent dinosaur-like people? I don't care for Sawyer's work, for the 
most part.

I'd agree that Timelike Infinity isn't a very good book. It one of the 
weaker links in his Xeelee Sequence.
Baxter probably writes too much -- his work is uneven -- but his best, like 
Evolution or his Manifold and Destiny's Children trilogies, are very good.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Richard" <veg at dvandva.org>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: NP: Stephen Baxter


>
> 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.