From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
    wrote:   
   > "David E. Siegel (siegel@acm.org)"  wrote   
   >> Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   > [...]   
      
   >>> I'm not sure that I've read _Deepness_; I don't care much   
   >>> for his work.  (I much prefer hers.)   
      
   >> _Deepness_ is IMO rather unlike his earlier work in the   
   >> "Across Realtime" series. I'm not sure which of his works   
   >> you have read. I liked it very much, but will readily   
   >> concede it would not be to everyone's tastes. (But then,   
   >> what is?)   
      
   So true.   
      
   > I read _The Witling_ and _Grimm?s World_ years ago, though I   
   > remember very little of either, and I?ve browsed in   
   > _Rainbows End_.  I?m pretty sure that I?ve at least browsed   
   > in both _Fire_ and _Deepness_, and I may even have read at   
   > least a good chunk of one of them.  I can read him, but I no   
   > longer bother: I?m a character-centred reader, and he offers   
   > too little in the way of characters that appeal to me.   
      
   Hah! I'm not alone! :) (Hey, don't you want to beta-read my stuff? ;P )   
      
   I've read at least the start of A Deepness in the Sky, but I think I   
   dropped it. Lack of interesting characters, and the 'spiders' were wrong   
   (and no, I don't care for a too-late-in-the-book explanation on that).   
      
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