Re: Irontown Blues, (Eight Worlds #4), by John Varley

Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:07:07 -0600
Newsgroups alt.fan.heinlein,alt.books.arthur-clarke
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On 3/8/2022 10:36 AM, a425couple wrote:
> On 3/7/2022 7:22 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 3/4/2022 5:23 PM, a425couple wrote:
>>> Irontown Blues
>>> (Eight Worlds #4)
>>> by John Varley
>>>   3.83
>>>
>>> from
>>> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37504319-irontown-blues
>>>
>>> Goodreads reviewer says:
>>> Lowell rated it really liked it
>>>
>>> Irontown Blues is a fun romp that moves fast and, in general,
>>> has no problems going where anyone has gone before. It is both
>>> a critique of and love letter to Robert Heinlein's "The Moon
>>> is a Harsh Mistress," and features a noir-obsessed private
>>> investigator and his dog (who walks through walls).
>>>
>>> I'm also posting to
>>>     alt.books.arthur-clarke
>>> because of Varley's 8 Worlds,
>>> seemed inclusive of many of Clarke's ideas.
>>
>> Why not post to rec.arts.sf.written ?
>> Lynn
> 
> I suppose I could Lynn.
> Except so far, really the above is not much to say.
> Sure gets decent response on the Heinlein Facebook
> group.
> 
> Also a very large number of posters on
> rec.arts.sf.written
> are a surly disagreeable lot.
> Some days I'm willing to engage in 'disagreeableness' ,
> some days I'm not.

We are, aren't we !  VBG (very big grin).

Lynn