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Originally Posted by rhadin
Interesting take because I'm just the opposite. I have read each of the previous volumes in Weber's series and I don't find the infodumps overly annoying. I do agree, however, that he could use a much better editor than he has -- or perhaps his editor is excellent but Weber is not following the editor's advice, a not uncommon phenomenon, especially with established successful authors. (James Patterson is notorious among editors for throwing tantrums if anything more than a spelling error is suggested as a correction.) Anyway, I've had on preorder for months the new volume in the series and am looking forward to receiving it in a few weeks.
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Since I haven't read any of the Safehold series, I'm only relying on hearsay about the infodumps in them. Toni Weiskopf at Baen admitted at a convention panel I attended that Baen never edits Weber because it would only make his chronically late manuscripts even later because he has so many books in progress.