dennis@CSNET-SH.ARPA@caip.RUTGERS.EDU (01/26/86)
From: "Cyril N. Alberga" <alberga.yktvmx%ibm-sj.csnet@CSNET-SH.ARPA> Since I moved to write today, I might as well throw in my two cents worth. In all the discussion of description, why as no one mentioned Cherryh? Of all the writers working today I find her work creating the most "real" worlds. I can smell the air on her docks, and hear the movements behind me. She seems to tell much of her stories via discription. More than most she shows rather than explains. I realize that this make her work somewhat more difficult, you have to think about everything, notice things and remember them. (I'm reading Cookoo's Egg just now, and it is interesting that that is what Thorn must learn. Clearly that is the way she wants people to veiw her universes as well.) Cyril N. Alberga