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Originally Posted by Difflugia
Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't read any of those, so I may have just picked the wrong books to sample.
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Every publisher and author has duds. And not everything is to everybody's taste.
(I wouldn't wish Heinlein's NUMBER OF THE BEAST on a politician but most everything else from him is at least readable.)
And market tastes vary with time so stories and subgenres that might have been popular (or unpopular) at a given point in time might face a different fate a few years later. That's one of the virtues of ebooks: once a title is digitized there is no penalty to keeping it available regardless of popularity. No valid reason to take it off the market.
BTW, of the stories I listed, I am particularly fond of BOUNDARY. Not many hard SF stories are built off the science of paleontology.