Ken Valentine Wrote:Not especially, but I have a couple of friends who are. One is the Future Fiction novelist L. Neil Smith, and the other is an artist/cartoonist . . . Scott Bieser.
I read RA Wilson and Robert Shea's
Illuminatus! trilogy, and every dozen or so pages I'd say to myself, "Why am I still reading this fakakta piece of *%&^!?" I finished all 700-odd pages. Years later, I still can't decide whether it was one of the masterpieces of its age or the biggest waste of two weeks of my life.
Believe it or not, that's a compliment
Will have to look into some El Neil, although books are fiendishly expensive here Down Under. (And sometimes hard to find: I have sourced most of my RJ books from good old Barnes and Noble.)