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|    Robert Woodward to James Nicoll    |
|    Re: (Worst) The Eye of Argon by Jim Thei    |
|    21 Oct 25 10:12:54    |
      From: robertaw@drizzle.com              In article <10d8022$8oj$1@reader2.panix.com>,        jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:              > The Eye of Argon by Jim Theis       >       > The story that began the grand tradition of picking on a teenager's work.       >       > https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/all-summer-in-a-day              IIRC, Patricia Wrede pointed out that Jim Theis at 16 was writing in       tight 3rd person correctly, which she couldn't do in _Shadow Magic_       (which she had written in her late 20s).              --       "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."       Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.       ‹-----------------------------------------------------       Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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