Eric Herrmann wrote:
Morley,
Dude, ask them to order if you need to. It's one of the best of the series yet. He's getting better...
Actually, I'd say he was getting worse. Glen peaked in the early nineties and has gone downhill since. Probably about the time he bought a computer to write with.
Cruel Zinc Melodies was flat and the whole story can be summed up in two words, "Tinnie glared."
Is it as well done as Sweet Silver Blues? No, but then again Sweet Silver Blues doesn't have the baggage of Cruel Zinc Melodies. It's much better than the Angry Lead Sky. As for the computer, I read something by him that said when he switched from typewriter to computer, his books all got thicker. Typewriters (for you young pups) required thought, because they didn't have copy and paste, and only the last generation of them had a delete that worked. You typed, and if you made a mistake sometimes you'd have to retype the entire page! They required more discipline than word processors. Is that lack of discipline a good thing, or has it allowed author's imagination's to flow? I'm not sure, but Cook's books did increase their page count when he switched. Richard