From: Walter Hicks (wallyshoes@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 10:28:54 EDT
Hey, taste is taste. I read much of his sci-fi
(including the Time Machine) and just did not like
it. Glad you like him, however.
I love this list. You can get an argument if all
you say is that you do not care for Jell-O.
Walt
RFaussette@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 10/6/03 11:12:14 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, wallyshoes@mindspring.com writes:
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>> He was an old time sci-fi person who wrote
>> mediocre fiction and other things---- IMO.
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>> Walt
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> That's totally unfair - I have the 4 volume
> outline of history and given the time he wrote
> it, it's a great work. His fiction is anything
> but mediocre. His Time Machine is about the
> world splitting into two lineages, the techies
> and everybody else. That's also the message of
> the Bell Curve a century later - a two tiered
> world composed of high IQ people and everybody
> else.
>
> rich faussette
-- =================================== Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>In any consistent theory, there must exist true but not provable statements. (Godel's Theorem)
You can only find the truth with logic If you have already found the truth without it. (G.K. Chesterton) ===================================
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