On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:00 PM, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

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> On 20 Aug 2008, at 17:17, John Garcia wrote:
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> > Has anyone read Greg Bear's thriller Quantico?
> >
> > I enjoyed it. Bear always gives me some food for thought.
>
> Would you have read it if you didn't know Bear from his SF? Thrillers
> are a much more lucrative genre than SF so it's not surprising SF
> writers sometimes have a try at it (Gregory Benford's _Artifact_ was
> another) but I think they usually have too much SF for the thriller
> crowd and not enough for the SF crowd.
>
> Neither fish nor fowl Maru
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It's most likely that I would have read it even if I had not know Bear from
his other writings. I browse bookstores looking for something to read and
based on past purchases, I would have picked this up.

book junkie maru
john
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