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Originally Posted by Apache
He has always been a great writer in my opinion and this shows his understanding of what makes good writing for the masses. I is one of the masses.
Apache
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IMPO, Eric Flint is a writer who greatly benefits from having a co-author who counter balances his excesses. He's just a little bit too fond of the over the top character who loudly extolls his view and apparently wins his arguments by pure bombastic style. A little bit of that goes a long, long way, IMPO. With that said, I have a a lot of Eric Flint books and really liked the first few books of the 1632 series and am very fond of his collaborations with David Weber and David Drake.
Where he really shines is in his knowledge of the history of SF&F and of the older somewhat forgotten authors from the 50's and before.
I tend to agree with his point that a number of very popular, very good authors who are both left wing and right wing get ignored by the awards system.