Book blurbs

[The Sanity Inspector]

Remember when Frederik Pohl put that blurb on Delany’s Dahlgren that
said, “In the tradition of Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land”? And
someone asked him what tradition was that?
He said, “Fat science fiction novels that sell well.”
-- Gordon Van Gelder, http://users.rcn.com/devniad/devniads/d56.pdf

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bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
-- The Jam

[David C Kifer]

The Sanity Inspector dipped mouse in ink and wrote:
> Remember when Frederik Pohl put that blurb on Delany’s Dahlgren that
> said, “In the tradition of Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land”? And
> someone asked him what tradition was that?
> He said, “Fat science fiction novels that sell well.”
> -- Gordon Van Gelder, http://users.rcn.com/devniad/devniads/d56.pdf

So why did I like _Dune_ and _Stranger..._ more than _Dahlgren_?

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky.
My pile of books
Are a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I'll have a long beard
By the time I read them.
-- Arnold Lobel

--
Dave
"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]

[libreria]

The Sanity Inspector wrote:
> Remember when Frederik Pohl put that blurb on Delany’s Dahlgren that
> said, “In the tradition of Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land”? And
> someone asked him what tradition was that?
> He said, “Fat science fiction novels that sell well.”

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A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, 'Arts and Letters', Afterthoughts (1931)

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[Norma van der Plaas]

David C Kifer wrote:
> The Sanity Inspector dipped mouse in ink and wrote:
>> Remember when Frederik Pohl put that blurb on Delany’s Dahlgren that
>> said, “In the tradition of Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land”? And
>> someone asked him what tradition was that?
>> He said, “Fat science fiction novels that sell well.”
>> -- Gordon Van Gelder, http://users.rcn.com/devniad/devniads/d56.pdf
>
> So why did I like _Dune_ and _Stranger..._ more than _Dahlgren_?

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.
We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and
unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
~Philip K. Dick

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//Norma van der Plaas B.Bs (Hons) Univ.of HK
**New clinical studies show there are no answers.**