Bad SF lexicon

[Wilson Gray]

On 11/7/05, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> James A. Landau wrote:
> > in the early 1970's Deen Koontz was considered within the SF community
> to be
> > an up-and-coming science fiction writer. I don't know when he started
> > writing horror (maybe even before SF) nor whether he still writes
> straight SF.
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> According to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, he began publishing
> SF in 1967 and wrote at least 20 SF novels in the next five years, but
> he has concentrated on horror since 1975.
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> FWIW.
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> Jim Parish
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Twenty novels in five years?! no wonder that it struck Jim as hackwork!

-Wilson Gray