Re: book

Trond Buland (Trond.Buland@IFIM.SINTEF.NO)
Tue, 29 Aug 1995 13:43:04 GMT-0100

on Monday Christina Siun O'Connell
> for the more physics able than moi, try Greg Egan (sigh - I get all lost
> in his)
that other Greg ain't bad either... Greg Bear, that is.... "queen of
angels" is a great mix of voodoo and AI, and "moving mars" seems to be
ok (i've just reached page 100 so far)

> ...C
> who is on a Iain Banks binge now ...

yeah, Banks seems to pop up un FC ever so often. anybody here reading
his "brother" Iain M.(?) Banks' "mainstream" novels ("slipstream" more
likely....) any comments on
a) the quality of t-h-a-t side of his literary personality as compared
to the sf-writer side
b) how a writer is able to separate his two different personalities
to the degree Banks seems to be able to
(dammit, i've got severe problems separating my academic writing from
my sf! but then i'm no Banks either.... ;-))

have a nice day :-)

tb

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