Date: 2006-08-19 02:25 pm (UTC)
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It /very/ much was. Mike Ford is only the second SF author I've come across who's also an accomplished poet (Roger Zelazny being the first)[1]. He's just.so.good with words, with ideas . . . if a Gene Wolfe book is a jigsaw puzzle where you're missing half the pieces, a Mike Ford story is putting on a pair of polarised sunglasses, such that not only does everything look different but many things have aspects you never noticed before.

Gene Wolfe and John M. "Mike" Ford write caviar. It is a lot of work to get to. You have to open the can, you have to make sure the refrigeration is exactly perfect. You have to have the right atmosphere, and you have to approach it with the proper reverence if you're going to get anything out of the experience. But if you do, my god, is it worth it!
--Steve Brust


[1] I've read Gene Wolfe's "The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps," and it was really cool, but one poem doth not a poet make.
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