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Originally Posted by rleguillow
IMHO, doesn't matter what genre you are writing in, if I don't care about the characters and what is happening to them, I don't care about the book.
Robin
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It is the art and craft of the author that makes one care. When Gardner Dozois was compiling a collection of short stories,
Modern Classics of Science Fiction, there were many choices he could have made. But, in his words,
"Most people would probably have chosen
Baby is Three for this book, and it is indeed a seminal work ... but somehow it was the sly little story that follows, a vivid glimpse of the strangeness that underlies the everyday world, that was the Sturgeon story I've never been able to get out of my mind, and which was the one that insisted that I pick it for this anthology. And, indeed, I think that it is Sturgeon at the very top of his form ... which places it among the best work ever done in the genre."
That work would be,
The Other Celia. Although I recollect her saying not a single word (quoted line), she was a character I'll always remember and identify with.
http://books.google.com/books?id=usY...0celia&f=false