William Denton (buff@pobox.com)
Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:09:18 -0500 (EST)
On 10 December 1999, Anders Engwall wrote:
: Now, I'm aware of the followups to Violets -- "The Pale
Criminal" and
: "German Requiem" -- but I understand Kerr has also
written a lot of
: SF, a genre in which I have very little interest. So,
what else of his
: work should I get?
I haven't read those, or _Dead Meat_, which I think you might
want to look at. _A Philosophical Investigation_ is SF, and I
thought it was dreadful, but it's about serial killers and
things so you might want to read the back cover and take a
chance. You'd probably want to avoid anything he did after
that, like _The Grid_ or _Esau_. _A Five Year Plan_ is a lame
Elmore Leonard imitation, and I dropped it after 50 pages.
The others are technothrillers and Michael Crichtonish
things.
Bill
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