cjh@csin.UUCP (06/03/83)
orman book would be drek.
The man has barely tolerable grammar and no sense of pacing, character, or
how to put a story together, and he refuses to permit people with decades
of professional experience to improve the mechanics of his work. The first
few Gor books came out from Ballantine, but when he started to write longer
and longer books on the same thin vein of material they (Ian and Betty B)
asked to cut and reshape a bit and he took a walk. Don Wollheim doesn't
fuss about the content; he just pays and charges by the pound and counts the
fistsful of money the Gor books generate that allow him to take chances on
unknowns like Cherryh.
Oddly enough, I do know at least two women who get off on Goresque
fantasizing, and neither one of them is a particularly meek type when
in public.
CHip
(Chip Hitchcock)
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