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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I've never claimed to be able to spell or write elegantly. (There are plenty of examples on this board...)
Plus I left out Heinlein Mark III deliberately. I didn't consider him part of the "New Wave" group of writers. (That's not a sneer, just a description. Compare, say Moorcock's A Cure For Cancer with anything Heinlein wrote pre-1979. Not the same grouping...)
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A fair decision.
He took advantage of the looser editorial climate but he went in a very different direction than the New Wave authors. Different concerns and interests from them. For him the new rules were more a license to tackle taboo subjects such as religion and race with a contrarian approach more than a rebellion against the status quo. He had no interest in going into Ellison/Moorcock territory, he was just happy to lose the old handcuffs. Of course, the lack of fetters led eventually to NUMBER OF THE BEAST but you gotta take the bad with the good. (GLORY ROAD, for one.)