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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Troubled Waters: Five SFF Works About Rivers
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:07:55 -0800
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On 1/17/2025 7:50 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <m2ikqde9q3.fsf@kelutral.omcl.org>,
> Steve Coltrin  <spcoltri@omcl.org> wrote:
>> begin  fnord
>> jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) writes:
>>
>> [Riverworld]
>>
>>> My memory is that each new volume was a bit more meh than the one
>>> before.
>>
>> It's pretty much a geometric series converging on "not as bad as Chalker
>> at his worst... quite".
> 
> It's like Lost, in that the questions were far more interesting than the
> answers.
> 
The producers of 'Lost' never HAD any answers, they just threw shit at 
the viewers with no intention of providing answers.

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