Re: Genre Study 2: Fantasy


10 May 1995 05:10:12 GMT

In article <3opdge$jjh@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
Phil Goetz <goetz@cs.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
>Required reading? I hope not. It's huge! Has anybody here actually
>read the whole thing? It has 1001 stories in it! It's, like, 10 volumes!
>More than half of them are about sex.

Heh, you just don't have any patience. Would I be recommending them if I
hadn't read them? Of course, it does get kind of irritating when you're
recursed into a story within a story within a story within a story within
a story. I've counted up to six levels of recursions. Yeesh.

>I don't like to be negative, but my main reaction to the science fiction
>post is that trying to enumerate possible plots is not a very useful
>approach to science fiction.

Old news, Phil. No further genre posts are forthcoming. Few got
anything useful out of them. I reckon I've said about all I can say on
the topic of game writing (and it's all in my authorship guide if you
missed it.) I mean, once you've written such a big pile of stuff, what
is there left to say?

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