NP: Stephen Baxter

[Michael Richard]

Hi,
	Thank you for the correction.   I read Sawyer's dark matter
novel, it was interesting, and then conflated the biographies.
It's been a while...  (He *did* write some dark matter novel,
right? hmm,  more confusion?)

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, tbeshear wrote:

> 
> 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. 
>