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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (46402)	8/18/2003 10:25:18 AM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 57110

You start writing AND YOU JUST CAN'T STOP, even when you have nothing to say. I'd say anyone on SI with over 25,000 posts must have that affliction, wouldn't you agree? Except Jorj, of course! LOL

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (46402)	8/18/2003 10:52:14 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 57110

I thought Heinlein was getting pretty useful for alternative sex education to kids, you know, with all that "Have sex with anyone and everyone, be it man, woman, computer-turned-woman, your cloned twin daughters, or your own mother" moral infused into the latter books. You know, the ones in which Lazarus Long is the protagonist :-) There is a worst case of the Disease than Heinlein, if you are at all interested. A guy called Iain M. Banks, who writes what must be the most verbose and pointless sci-fi on this planet - robots and nice humans living in harmony on one side and a lot of wars on the other. Player of Games was rather interesting and so was Use of Weapons and Inversions. I read 10-12 more before I finally gave up on the guy while painfully laboring through a book called Feersum Injinn or something, most of which is written by a character who apparently finds it unnecessary to conform to generally accepted spelling rules, but has invented some phonetical writing of his own. Argh. The bad news is that Banks is still alive. I think he has already written a bit more than Heinlein. Trust him to write more...