Posted by Mary Hoberg on December 14, 1996 at 21:03:54:
In Reply to: Do Vance fans like Patrick O'Brian's sea books? posted by Brian McCue on December 09, 1996 at 13:18:27:
: On the basis of rather slender evidence, I have formed the hypothesis that people who like JV books would also like Patrick O'Brian's books about the Hornblower-era adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.
: Has anybody out there read enough of both to have formed an opinion?
: Brian McCue
I've read quite a bit of Vance and the first six books of the Aubrey-Maturin series and I like both of them very much. I don't know if they have anything in common except a certain richness of language, which allows them to evoke their own alien worlds with total realism for the reader. Of course you could also say that a good sci fi writer and a good historical novelist are creating the same kind of thing: a hypothetical world rather than hypothetical situations in a real world.
Mary Hoberg