Budrys says that After Doomsday "...cheats a lot. But that's okay." It wouldn't be okay if I knew how it cheated.
Budrys:
admires Anderson's range;
suspects that Anderson can write stories just to test "...analytical notions...";
comments that Anderson writes every kind of and many different kinds of stories and therefore is a "...classicist."
Write on.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I've read Anderson's AFTER DOOMSDAY several times and I don't agree with Budrys when he said Anderson somehow "cheated" readers in that book. I loved that story so much I even copied out by hand Anderson's ballad "The Battle of Brandobar." So Budrys comment about "cheating" baffled and irritated me. The rest of what you quoted I do agree with.
Sean
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