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rob05c  ·  3400 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Anti-Tolkein

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that anyone who has written 70 "novels" is not a good novelist.

Asimov? Dean Koontz? Stephen King?

I haven't read Moorcock; but I do think there are authors both prolific and good. (Yes, Koontz and King have a lot of mediocre stuff, but they also have a lot of good.)





user-inactivated  ·  3400 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Asimov, the exception. But he was a) unique in that he wrote fiction and nonfiction interchangeably and b) ironically one of those old guard authors who based his scifi in hard science, which the article dismisses so quickly.

I haven't read much Koontz or King but I've never liked any of it really. Except this.