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To: Jhana who wrote (51523)	2/12/2025 5:42:29 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) of 51552

One of the moments that marks my conversion from science fiction fanatic into an avoider was when I went back and tried to read some Asimov after discovering literary fiction around the age of 14. I realized that although he was a good non fiction writer and came up with interesting fiction plots, he couldn't create a real human character to save his life. Then I started looking back at some of my other former faves and discovered they had the same problem. Pretty soon all I was reading from that genre was from outsiders like J.G. Ballard and R.A. Lafferty and Michael Moorcock, and not long after that I sold all the 3000+ sf and fantasy books I had collected. LC

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