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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (Shockwave Reader) A Maze of Stars by John Brunner
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:24:25 -0400
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James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <slrn107cs87.bsl.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
> Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>> On 2025-07-15, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/till-eternity
>>
>> | A number of SF authors pursued careers like Brunner’s: early
>> | prodigious output of competent pulp, a middle ambitious period,
>> | the grim realization that readers had no interest in rewarding
>> | their hard work with a commensurate increase in income, embittered
>> | disenchantment, and a return to their origins, albeit with better
>> | prose and plotting.
>>
>> I'll bite: What other authors followed such a career trajectory?
> 
> Piers Anthony is one. Robert Silverberg is another.

I was going to suggest Silverberg, but "The Alien Years" and "The 
Kingdom of the Wall" were innovative enough to make me hesitate. 
Anthony, definitely.

Anthony commented somewhere that his work on "Chthon" made him about a 
quarter an hour.

William Hyde