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   From: trminlxGARBAGE@bitstreamnet.com   
      
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    "Media Fiend"  wrote:   
      
   > Even a quick visit to his website will reveal the egotistical (cyber) punk   
   > in all his glory. He is such a wonderful (SF) writer he can't even check his   
   > facts. For instance, trying to make a point about why he doesn't respond to   
   > fan email, he uses as example of media obsession with celebrity a television   
   > story on the birthday of one "Harry Dean Anderson," whom he claims starred   
   > in the TV series MACGYVER. Well, you don't have to be a MACGYVER fan or even   
   > watch television regularly (as I'm sure, with all those brilliant   
   > word-strings he is obliged to come up with, he can not) that he really means   
   > RICHARD Dean Anderson, currently the star of the biggest SF hit on TV   
   > period, STARGATE SG-1 (no, I am not a fan or watch regularly). Now, maybe he   
   > was thinking of Harry Dean STANTON, laconic indy film icon and a late night   
   > snack for the titular character in the original ALIEN. The rest of his site   
   > is dull and verbose, just like his recent books. So why bother? Because this   
   > is postmodernism, folks (or is it modernism, I don't know, I read nothing   
   > written after 1950 or so). This man is the current darling of the hopelessly   
   > unoriginal "cyberpunk" genre, a contradiction in terms, as computers do   
   > everything to destroy literature save actually burning the books (and this   
   > will come when the machines take over in twenty years or so - see the   
   > nonfiction writings of Vernor Vinge). One need not be a "luddite" to   
   > appreciate that 99% of ALL great art was created long before the invention   
   > of the typewriter, let alone the glowing word processor. Neal, just stop.   
   > You are now stepping into Stephen "I retire, I unretire, I retire, I   
   > unretire" King's domain of long outstaying one's welcome. If you were really   
   > "cutting edge," or the slightest bit original, you would ignore paper and   
   > printing all together and just upload your groundbreaking fiction to a pay   
   > site and be done with it. Then all of your fans (a few hundred 12-17 year   
   > old scriptkiddies) could swipe their parents credit card and buy all the   
   > verbose meanderings you care to fart electronically into "cyberspace." The   
   > rest of us will be breathing fresh air and hiking in the woods. And plotting   
   > the downfall of the Megamachine ....   
      
   If you don't read anything after 1950 you are not qualified to make   
   judgement of anything written after 1950 simply by virtue of not having   
   experienced said writing. Ergo, your opinion is not only invalid but, by   
   your own admission, ill informed.   
      
      
   end result: you sound like an idiot. and this post sounds like   
   trollbait, consider yourself k/f'd. *plonk*   
      
      
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