[Dragaera] _Taltos_ and _The Hobbit_

[Kenneth Gorelick]

You can't leave us hanging like this! It is like telling a joke and forgetting the punchline!

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On Aug 17, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Mark Landin <marklandin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember reading an asimov story (forget which one) and was struck
> at how the last section's voice and pacing was so different than the
> rest of the story. Later found out campbell thought the ending was
> lacking and tacked on his own, over asimov's objections, before
> publishing. It was a heavy-handed effort...no wonder asimov disliked
> him.
> 
> On 8/17/10, Peter Granzeau <pgranzeau at cox.net> wrote:
>> At 01:17 PM 8/17/2010, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>>> * The magical hiring figure isn't around for most of the major action
>>>> sequences.  (Admittedly, this is a standard Campbellian trope.)
>>> 
>>> Who's Campbell?
>> 
>> John W. Campbell (1910-1971), longtime editor of Astounding Science
>> Fiction/Analog Science Fiction - Science Fact, from 1937 to his death, who
>> possibly was the single greatest influence on the genre.  I think a group of
>> his rules for writing are around, although I can't find them right now.  He
>> was, admittedly, highly opinionated, and eventually managed to alienate a
>> large number of his authors, including Heinlein and Asimov.
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Regards, Pete
>> pgranzeau at cox.net
>> 
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