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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: It is not just Physics that Should be Hard in Hard SF
Date: 11 Oct 2024 19:52:03 -0000
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <vebkmc$f1p$1@panix2.panix.com>,
>Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>>In article <ve9dec$39tdu$1@dont-email.me>, Kevrob  <kjrobinson@mail.com> wrote:
>>>On 10/7/2024 11:43 AM, Don wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Robin Cook's mentioned at the reddit link. My followup pertains to Cook.
>>>> 
>>>Cook is a trained M. Have you tried F.Paul Wilson's medical-related 
>>>thrillers? He's a DO.
>>
>>Don't forget Michael Crichton, who wrote well-crafted biological 
>>near-future science fiction books like Terminal Man, Andromeda
>>Strain, and so forth before he became too famous to write new stuff.
>
>I was aware that he became too dead to write new stuff, but thought he
>had kept going up until that point..

No, at some point he got to the point where he was just writing the
same book over and over again with the same characters and only one
or two basic premises changed.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."