----- Original Message ----- From: "nikki m. pill" <stvitus at flash.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 2:25 PM Subject: Fw: SF pet peeves > > Stacy wrote: > > > > > There are writer who can get away with a style such as this, but most > > cannot. > An author's "clever humor" is the same way. Steven, of course, can be > riotously funny without detracting from the story. So can Neil Gaiman & > Terry Pratchett, as in *Good Omens,* or Douglas Adams (for the first few The world needs more books like "Good Omens". That was an amazing collaboration, I wish they'd do it again. Scott