>< Same as being bad fiction with good science:
>however I loved "Heart of the Comet" by Brin and Benford, which I recommend
>to everybody who has an inkling for the science side, falters as fiction.
>There's a clear coesura, at about three fourths, from a situation that
>looks bleak to a situation that looks rosy, that is not justified.>
>
>It doesn't happen often. You stumped me by using a word neither I nor my
>wife, a professional editor, had ever seen before. You drove me to my
>American Heritage dictionary, unabridged, third edition, but "coesura" was
>nowhere to be found.

I believe the person who originally sent this post ment to spell the word
"caesura".  That word you will find even in the compact versions of Webster's
School and Office Dictionary.

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