Re: Jack Vance / Terry Pratchett cross-over fanship

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: Re: Hugo award winner Eric Frank Russell : Please give us the title of the racist story and the two anti-racist stories he wrote. Interested in why you say he "deliberately" wrote the anti-racist stories. Didn't he also deliberately write the story you think is racist? He was pretty tight with John Campbell so this might explain some of his views. : I very much dislike Pratchett. Just not my style. : American. : John Robinson : : : Initial results of survey: : : 6 people have written to me so far. Thanks, people! : : However, I am a bit disappointed at not more contacting me. : : Results very roughly: : : Quite a few don't like Pratchett (considering his humour limited). : : A couple (and me) love him, finding him a very serious author : : who is usually very humourous too, but find his last two books disappointing. : : Eric Frank Russell remains widely unknown (forgotten), which is : : sad; ERF was a very interesting author (politically etc.). : : Just a small note: ERF wrote one of the most racist SF stories : : I have ever read, and he also wrote 2 of the most powerfully : : (deliberately) anti-racist SF stories I have ever read. : : There seems to be no Brit/Yank divide in cross-over fanship; : : two Brits love Vance & detest Pratchett, one loves both. : : One American loves both. : : A couple of Dutch have answered; where are all the Australians? : : And BTW, I'm German. : : Suan Yong's comment about Vance seems very comprehensively true.

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