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From: JWenn.ESAE@XEROX.COM
Date: 19 Jan 89 08:00:42 GMT




I'm now going to do some easy authors people have requested.  Easy because
(1) I own all (or virtually all) of their works & (2) they are all recent
writers.

John M. Ford is a good writer.  I've enjoyed every one of his books
(although his second book is a bit weak).  "The Dragon Waiting" is a great
alternate history.  "The Final Reflection" is the definitive novel on
Klingons & "How Much for Just the Planet?" is **FUNNY** (both for people
who like and people who dislike trek).  All we need is alot more novels!

[NSF] == Not SF

/John

arpa: JWenn.ESAE@Xerox.com

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John M. Ford
    Web of Angels [1980]
    The Princes of the Air [1982]
    The Dragon Waiting [1983]
    The Final Reflection [1984] [star trek]
    How Much for Just the Planet? [1987] [*FUNNY* star trek]
    The Scholars of Night [1988] [NSF]

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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
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Subject: Re: John M Ford, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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jmf@abacus.uucp (Joan Frankel) writes:

>Can anyone give me a capsule review, or recommendation, of John M Ford's
>other book(s)?

Let's see...

Casting Fortune - a collection of his Liavek stories, with one original
	novella added.  From Tor Books.

Scholars of Night - a political espionage thriller, also from Tor Books.

How Much For Just the Planet - a Star Trek / Gilbert and Sullivan farce,
	very funny book (as long as you aren't a fanatic about Trek stuff).
	From Pocket Books.

The Final Reflection - another Star Trek book, this one a novel within a
	novel from the Klingon point of view.  A tour de force, and one
	hell of a book.  Also from Pocket.

Web of Angels
Princes of the Air - two early books.  I haven't read them, and don't know
	where they were from.

Also one half of one of the recent Tor Doubles series, title escapes me
right now.

Coming from Bantam, a major novel, Growing Up Weightless.

And assorted short stories and such in most of the major magazines.

That help?
 
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us