From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org

 wrote:
> "David E. Siegel (siegel@acm.org)"  wrote
>> Brian M. Scott wrote:

> [...]

>>> I'm not sure that I've read _Deepness_; I don't care much
>>> for his work.  (I much prefer hers.)

>> _Deepness_ is IMO rather unlike his earlier work in the
>> "Across Realtime" series. I'm not sure which of his works
>> you have read. I liked it very much, but will readily
>> concede it would not be to everyone's tastes. (But then,
>> what is?)

So true.

> I read _The Witling_ and _Grimm?s World_ years ago, though I
> remember very little of either, and I?ve browsed in
> _Rainbows End_.  I?m pretty sure that I?ve at least browsed
> in both _Fire_ and _Deepness_, and I may even have read at
> least a good chunk of one of them.  I can read him, but I no
> longer bother: I?m a character-centred reader, and he offers
> too little in the way of characters that appeal to me.

Hah! I'm not alone! :) (Hey, don't you want to beta-read my stuff? ;P )

I've read at least the start of A Deepness in the Sky, but I think I
dropped it. Lack of interesting characters, and the 'spiders' were wrong
(and no, I don't care for a too-late-in-the-book explanation on that).

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