From Brin to Hillerman: Favorite Authors, and Random Netflix Recs

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Just as well I fell in love with your work before I was permanently put off by the list of favourite authors.

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What, you hate all of them? :P

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No, but there's a couple whose presence astonished me.

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So, satisfy my curiosity. I know you hate Pullman. Who else?

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Nobody else quite so much. It was more like - Neil Gaiman and no Alan Moore? I like Gaiman, but compared to Moore, he is like a light rose' wine compared with a vintage port. And I reacted negatively to mention of Heinlein, whom I regard as a bad influence not only politically but as a craftsman - I don't like this business of just starting a story without any idea what you will do with it - but I see that you have the same objections as I have, and incidentally place the point of no return at pretty much the same time as I do. The Friday and related complex of stories were just deeply weird...