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From: Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org>
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Subject: Re: (Shockwave Reader) A Maze of Stars by John Brunner
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Melissa Hollingsworth <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> writes:

> I liked some of Piers Anthony's more ambitious work. I believe it's all 
> Xanth all the time now. Of course, he's also fairly old and may just see 
> this as semi-retirement.

Given the simplicity of language in his recent newsletters when he
actually writes one, said massive drop in frequency, and his recent move
into a managed decline facility on the other side of Unistat [1], I'm sure
it's more than semi.

[1] Unistat in processu sui ipsius destruendi est.

-- 
Steve Coltrin    spcoltri@omcl.org
  "A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel 
  to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed." 
  - Associated Press