Wow ... you guys know more about the worst writer than I know about my
favorite!
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> From: Don D'Ammassa <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Worst SF writer
> Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 11:12 AM
>
> He churned out scores of novels as John Muller, Karl Ziegfried, Bron
Fane, A.J.
> Merak, Astron Del Martia, and many others. Most were originally British
Badger
> paperbacks. Read any of them and you'll know why he's the worst. There
may be
> individual works by others that rival him, but for sheer consistency and
volume,
> Fanthorpe has never been challenged.
>
> Leigh A. Hughes wrote:
>
> > I'm curious. I never heard of either R. L. Fanthorpe or the pseudonym
A.J.
> > Merak.
> > Who is this guy and how, with all the 'dreck' being published, did he
get to
> > be crowned 'the all time worst SF writer'? What is his particular
> > distinction to be the worse?
> >
> > > In reply to Hake Koseoglu, Don D'Ammassa wrote:
> > >
> > > Avoid like the plague. That's one of R. L. Fanthorpe's pseudonyms
and he
> > is
> > > widely believed to be the all time worst SF writer.
> >
> > >> Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone. happy new millenium. :) (Although I'm saving myself
for
> > > > the party of 2001, the real millenia turnover. :) )
> > > > Anyway, To pass time in the first day of 2000, I went out and had a
look
> > > at 2nd hand bookshops near my house and found a book named "No Dawn
and
> > > > No Horizon" by A.J. Merak and I've never heard of him before...
> > > > Who is he? Is the book "readable"? Should I waste my time on it?
:-) >>
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