Einfach zum Kaputtlachen. Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus Ansible
David Langfords SF-Nachrichten, die er aus Grossbrittanien verbreitet.

AS OTHERS SEE US. Patrick Ness hopes that Tricia Sullivan will yet risefrom the gutter: `How frustrating to be a great writer who happens towork in sci-fi. For every Jeff Noon or Neal Stephenson who breaks out towider arenas, there's a Tricia Sullivan or a Jeff Vandermeer stuck on theshelves in that bit of the bookstore where most of you never wander.Hearteningly, Sullivan may be nearing escape velocity, and about time,too.' (_Guardian_, 20 Jan) [SN] Ness's review concludes: `Be brave. Stepinto the sci-fi section. You can wear a floppy hat.' Stephen Baxtermuses: `I'm intrigued by the floppy hat; what can he mean? And I couldn'thelp noticing the footnote that Ness's own new book is _Topics AboutWhich I Know Nothing_; evidently a weighty tome.'

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