feldman%awesum.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (06/25/84)
From: feldman%awesum.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Geoff Feldman at Trilogy 544-3410) I have enjoyed her books very much, but heard some strange things about her. Since I dont know if they are true, I dont want to state them here. I am an instructor in a Korean form of Kendo and like her books not just because they are entertaining and well written, but because the sword scenes are not baloney as in so much other "Sword and Sorcery". There is another book by an author whose name I forget which has a Japanese Kendo component as well as Zen. The basic plot is that a planet is colonized only to find out too late that it is populated with a form of Brain parasite. The very clever expedition commander (and part time Zen master) forms the culture around Zen precepts. Only by keeping the mind clear thru Zen meditation Can the colonists keep there minds from being overcome. Does this ring any bells?? ---Geoff