Scott Crain writes:
>Cowboy Feng's -was- good. His entire society seemed
>to me to be very ... Heinleinien,...
FWIW, I like Heinlein, and _Cowboy Feng's...was nothing like a
Heinlein novel.
I hated it not because of the plot (hell, I don't even remember
the plot) or the setting (that either, though "do the job" does ring a
faint bell), but because the driving energy that moves the typical
Brust book along, that keeps you turning pages until you reach the
end, gasping for more...
Was entirely missing. It wasn't anything close to a page-turner, was
almost boring in comparison, and was therefore a disappointment.
OTOH, I may reread it at some point and discover that it's decent SF
even if it's bad Brust -- who knows?
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