Bad SF lexicon

[Wilson Gray]

On 11/7/05, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> Wilson Gray wrote, of Dean Koontz' output:
> > Twenty novels in five years?! no wonder that it struck Jim as hackwork!
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> 'Swhat the book says. It may be worth recalling, though, that SF novels
> of that period were a deal shorter than they tend to be today. (I recall,
> when I first read Zelazny's _Lord of Light_ back around 1970, thinking
> that it was quite long; I recently came across a copy, and found that it
> was of no more than average length by today's standards.)
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> Jim Parish
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"A deal" shorter?! Not "a good deal" or "a great deal" shorter? Say it ain't
so, Jim!
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-Wilson Gray