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Hank Schwartz
"banjo & SciFi"
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Helpful votes received on reviews: 100% (1 of 1)
In My Own Words:
An avid old-time banjo player since 1958, I became a serious collector of early Fairbanks banjos a few years ago. This consuming interest finally resulted in my CD 'Notes Along The Way', a compendium of 24 solo traditional banjo tunes and songs. More info at http://home.comcast.net/~eyieyio/HSDMusic.html.

My other passion has always been sci-fi. I spent many years as a physicist and mechanical… Read more
 

Reviews

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A Bitter Feast by S. J. Rozan
A Bitter Feast by S. J. Rozan
3.0 out of 5 stars ehhhhhh, Aug 19 2001
Not an aaaahhhhhhh! Not an uuuuhhhhhhhh! Sort of a ehhhhhhhhh!

A complicated plot that barely kept my interest in a story peopled by characters that I barely cared about.

Lydia was too terminally perky for me, and Bill too forbearing as he graciously accepted an unending stream of rebuffs from her.

I should'a just passed this one by.

Genesis by Poul Anderson
Genesis by Poul Anderson
This book struck me as hastily thought out and written, with no love or energy expended on it.

The grand concept is not particularly interesting, and the bits and pieces stuck together to flesh out the concept are hackneyed.

I found it slow going and confusing, and not at all worth the time or effort.

Not recommended.

Plowing The Dark by R Powers
Plowing The Dark by R Powers
This most remarkable literary duet tells at one time the story of the evolution of Adie Klarpol from discouraged commercial artist to inspired cyber-expresionist, and the devolution of Taimur Martin from confident teacher to abject political prisoner.

The simultaneous tales are intertwined, not unlike the famed double-helix, and it was not unusual to find the reader lost among the two strands, not firmly affixed to either. I expect that this is one intent of the author as he ponders and prys at our concepts of perception and reality.

The vast constrast between the two states of being is emphasized by Powers' phenomenal grasp of the tools and methods of Virtual Reality, and by his… Read more

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