Re: Nebula Finalists 1982

On Fri, 10 May 2024 00:51:05 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On 8 May 2024 13:06:36 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
>

I agree with the May (and the other two). The May is one of the rare
cases where my opinion of the first book of a series went down as I
read more of the series.  There are plenty of series where my opinion
of the series goes down after I read more, but not many where the
opinion of the first book itself goes down.

>
I thought the first of the May books was the weakest of the series and
that they improved as she went on.
>
For me one of the best scenes was the creation of the Mediterranian
sea following the breaking of the rock formation of which Gibraltar
was part (and the only surviving portion of the rock face) - which one
of the main characters of the book played a critical part.

I've encountered that theory before. Also applied to the Red Sea with
the Bab al-Mandab the result of the breach.

Both, IIRC, were claimed to be what produced all those flood legends.

(The books were written nearly 40 years ago so I'm skeptical ROT13ing
the above isn't needed to prevent spoiling)

Unless you are saying that you have doubts about <ROT13ing the above>
not being needed to prevent spoilers, you may not mean what you
thought you meant.

And, if you had such doubts, why isn't it ROT13-ed? If you doubt it
isn't needed, doesn't that mean that it would at least be a prudent
thing to do?

Of course, my mind persists in inserting "that": "I'm skeptical that
ROT13ing" rather than "I'm skeptical ROT13ing". Perhaps the latter
doesn't mean what /I/ think it means!
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"