Re: Irontown Blues, (Eight Worlds #4), by John Varley
Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:07:07 -0600
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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