Path: ...!feed.opticnetworks.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Savard Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [Worst] The American Zone by L. Neil Smith Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:00:07 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:00:54 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="30a7f7470803a09796de4db9f884f8b7"; logging-data="1485738"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++inoF2asWqbWiT0I8MNaANcLrSSx109w=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:4oW945GobFt22buyUAZ0uZGr6pI= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 1519 On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:15:52 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote: >The American Zone (North American Confederacy, volume 5) by L. Neil Smith > >Can the PI's habit of derailing the investigation to focus on political >rants triumph over the bad guys' habit of carefully explaining to the >PI their goals and methods? Not a parody. > >https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/songs-of-freedom I'm solely familiar with L. Neil Smith from Big Head Press. This review, of course, does not surprise me. John Savard