[ExI] a truly ditzy review

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:37 AM 7/30/2008 +0000, BillK wrote:

>So somebody who has never done an Amazon review before is inspired to
>criticize this book?
>Hmmm.  I suspect a false profile. Somebody doesn't like you or the
>group of writers, Damien.

That was certainly my assessment. The poison pens of cyberspace strike again.

The annoying thing, I thought, is that the remarks are *almost* 
defensible about *some aspects* of the book--yet the overall tenor is 
a complete misreading, and mad to boot:

"This concept could have worked (could still work) with better, more 
imaginative writers. I can only guess that the editor did not have 
enough contacts in the science fiction world, or did not try hard 
enough to get the best people for the book."

Yeah, right, it's a terrible pity Gregory Benford and Rudy Rucker and 
Wil McCarthy and George Zebrowski and Pamela Sargent and Sean Carroll 
and Robert Bradbury et al are not among the best and most imaginative 
in science and sf.... Really?

Damien Broderick