On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 08:28 AM, Andrew Lias wrote: >> 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. I put Glen Cook in that category. C'mon Glen, you've been rehashing the same Black Company book for two decades.