>Sheri Tepper. She is not so much gone downhill as she is uneven. Some >stuff is great, some is awful. There doesn't seem to be a middle ground. Ah, yes -- the uneven author. That another archetype altogether. One, whom I consider a good example, is Harry Turtledove. The man can write! Some of his work is absolutely brilliant. Alas, some of it is absolutely banal. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail