>As for Anthony, I think he's gone senile - "The colour of her >Panties" - puh-lease. And puns are the lowest form of humour - the >ONLY form of humour he seems capable of nowadays. To think this is >the same fellow who wrote "Macroscope" and the "Omnivore, Orn & Ox" >series. Ah. _Macroscope_. I read _Macroscope_ once... In the first few pages he introduced a character named Brad--intelligent, charming, decisive, an excellent companion and assistant to the somewhat-confused protagonist Ivo. By page 100 Brad's mind had been destroyed by an alien video transmission. By page 200 Brad had been accidently turned into a giant starfish by a misguided attempt by his ex-girlfriend to cure his mind using alien technology that she did not understand. The giant starfish then immediately died. I have *never* read anything else by Piers Anthony. Do you think I'm too sensitive? :-) Brad DeLong