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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I liked Anthony's earliest works, like Prostho Plus, Macroscope, and the Omnivore/Orn/0X trilogy. I liked the first Xanth novel, but they palled rapidly afterward. I found Bio of a Space Tyrant simply unreadable.
The problem with Anthony is that he's one of the best in the SF field at taking an idea and running with it, but one of the worst at knowing when to stop. He tends to run series into and under the ground.Dennis
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So under the ground Hell has an uneven floor because of it.
One of my main issues with him is that he seems to inject sex into it, and bad sex at that.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Some later Clancy written alone.
Clancy is trying to make himself a franchise, with his name as the selling point. It's a safe bet that Tom Clancy and whoever means whoever actually wrote the book, and Clancy provided the idea and perhaps an outline.
But Clancy got popular enough to be editor proof. The last JAck Ryan novel badly needed an edit - there was at least one plot thread that went nowhere and could have been removed without notice. But he's popular enough to demand no editing and get away with it.
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Dennis
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I agree, his last "Jack Ryan" book got on my nerves a bit. I was hoping he'd do better with his son, but no.
The main problem is that he put Ryan onto the fast track as far as the career goes and unless he wants to make him world emperor, there isn't a place for him to go.