> Okay. But, although admittedly there's a lot of threads with a lot of > characters near the beginning, by page 100 you almost certainly have _some_ > idea of what's going to happen . . . > > > (Unlike Delaney's _Dhalgren_, where by page 100 most readers have given up > and thrown the book away in disgust . . . ) >
Unlike John Varley's otherwise wonderful _Steel Beach_, in which the plot does not arrive until roughly page 400 (of a 480-page book), but when it arrives, it ALL arrives at once, like a cloudburst dumping 8 inches or rain in an hour. Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
