On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 01:37:31PM -0700, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > Skimming the Amazon reviews, I got the impression that Moran excels at > plot but not at prose. Is that fair? Does it matter? Is > evil-blue-hats-take-over-the-world-giving-the-French-control-of-America > really the background? Speaking as an admitted fan, Moran *excels*. If he has a weaker point between plot and prose, it's prose (see EE and tLD), but it is never bad -- just not as good as it could be. His best work, IMO, is The Long Run, which is as near to a perfect SF novel as I have ever encountered -- prose, plot, polish, and otherwise. If you want to try out his work, get that one. Some of his other work is readable but not exceptional (ie, Armageddon Blues). -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp