--- Gomi no Sensei <gomi at speakeasy.net> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Johne Cook wrote: > > > The novel was "When Gravity Fails" and I remember thinking it was very > > uneven, kind of depressing, and wildly original. I liked it > > immediately, warts and all. I had hoped to read more from this > > author, but alas, never tracked down anything else by him. > > Oh, man, are you in for a treat. Those are three of my most treasured > books. > Everything you said about them goes. Marid and the Budayeen are an > amazing, > vibrant place, and Effinger's early death was a sore loss for the genre. ... I'm with you on the first two books but I'd apply Johne's description of WGF to _The Exile Kiss_: uneven. I only really liked the parts in the desert, as I recall. And I'm very much with you on Effinger's death. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail