"I thought this was a really weak year for fiction," said Benjamin Schwarz, literary editor for The Atlantic, "but I still wouldn't have guessed that any of these would have been strong contenders".
"It's quite a weak autumn for fiction in terms of really big names, in terms of the stuff people will recognise, so we are really very hopeful about Franzen".
While Murray's work including Tales of the New World and A Carnivore's Inquiry is often described with the weak catchall "historical fiction," it is more nearly about the tensions of colonization.
This leads to the usual law of diminishing returns: in the final, weaker novels, what fiction there ever was seems squeezed out of frame by the weight of a compulsive repetition.
In the vast ocean of King fiction, the weaker stuff just sinks from memory without a trace, and without much damage to the reader's confidence in him: a sturdier vessel is always heaving into view on the horizon.
Interspersed between his bestselling, much praised historical fictions were his weak efforts to extend the Myra formula to religion and similar topics, which confused and alienated readers of his historical titles and were not funny.
Computing clearly does not, at least not yet.Special report Securing the cloud Tools of the trade The weakest link Biometric fact and fiction When the door is always open Putting it all together The mouse that might roar Acknowledgments Reprints Related items Digital security: How to worry wiselyOct 24th 2002One of the many prerequisites for computing to become a utility is adequate security.
But a would-be thief could devise more creative attacks.Special report Securing the cloud Tools of the trade The weakest link Biometric fact and fiction When the door is always open Putting it all together The mouse that might roar Acknowledgments ReprintsHe could, for example, invent some story to persuade another customer who had already paid for his meal to leave, and then eat his pancakes.
Imagination is generally thought of by historians of science fiction as one of the weaker magazines of the 1950s, despite its relative longevity.
For example, in the reviews about the movies that a user u rated positively it was reported that they have strong science fiction elements (positive sentiment), but have weak or absent (negative or neutral/absent sentiment) romance.
