joj@pyuxo.UUCP (J Jasutis) (06/05/84)
Does anybody know when Gordon Dicksons' Final Encyclopedia is going to be available? It seems like its been promised forever as the conclusion for his Dorsai stories. Thanks, Jo pyuxo!joj
andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (06/07/84)
"Does anybody know when Gordon Dicksons' Final Encyclopedia is
going to be available? It seems like its been promised forever
as the conclusion for his Dorsai stories."
Remember a couple of years ago when a certain Big Name manufacturer of
magnetic media portrayed full page color ads showing Gordon Dickson
touting their brand of floppy disk? He said that he wouldn't trust the
word processing source to Final Encyclopedia to anything less.
My fantasy is that the novel files got trashed and he had neglected to
make backups.
("Whaddya mean, you typed 'rm * bak' instead of 'rm *.bak' ?!)
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP]
(orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll) (06/07/84)
* I don't know when "The Final Encycolpedia" is due out, but the last book by Dickson that I bought had a few lines on the cover advertising Dickson as "The author of The Final Encyclopedia". I expect it's on its way. -Kieran A. Carroll ...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll
hamachi@KIM.BERKELEY.EDU (Gordon Hamachi) (02/06/86)
Encyclopedia salesmen have traditionally been a blight on humanity. Gordon Dickson, author of the "Final Encyclopedia" is no exception. Here's a book of encyclopedic length, printed in 7 point font, with as much plot, development, and satisfaction as a mediocre encyclopedia. It shows interesting promise at the start, but collapses worse than the worst of recent Heinlein novels. In short, a real loser of a book. I highly disrecommend it.
bs@faron.UUCP (Robert D. Silverman) (02/07/86)
> Encyclopedia salesmen have traditionally been a blight on humanity. Gordon > Dickson, author of the "Final Encyclopedia" is no exception. Here's a book > of encyclopedic length, printed in 7 point font, with as much plot, development, > and satisfaction as a mediocre encyclopedia. It shows interesting promise at > the start, but collapses worse than the worst of recent Heinlein novels. In > short, a real loser of a book. > > I highly disrecommend it. I STRONGLY disagree. While the book is long and has a very detailed plot it also has outstanding character development and such development usually takes quite a bit of time. In my opinion "Final Encyclopedia" is one of the finest SF books ever written and ranks right with Dickson's other masterpiece "Tactics of Mistake" The ending is in fact incomplete as several have pointed out but it is an ongoing story and "Childe" is supposed to complete it. Of course we all are entitled to our own viewpoints. "De Gustibus Non Disputandem" Bob Silverman