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Ohio Joe

(21,894 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 05:05 PM Sep 2013

Kevin J Anderson - Anyone familiar with him?

When I was coming to Colorado from Mass, a friend of mine had given me a box of old books and I just finished reading Resurrection Inc. Wow... What a really good book. I'd never heard of the guy before but it seems he has written a bunch of... Spin off books for Star Wars and X Files. Has anyone read any of his other stuff... Is it any good?

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Kevin J Anderson - Anyone familiar with him? (Original Post) Ohio Joe Sep 2013 OP
50/50, I'd say. Hayabusa Sep 2013 #1
He's also Brian Herbert's partner getting old in mke Sep 2013 #2
He's the co-writer of SheilaT Sep 2013 #3
I'm happy for you that you've found one of his books you enjoy . . . MrModerate Sep 2013 #4
I found 3 of the prequels House Atreides, Harkonnen and the other one to be very well done Tetrachloride Oct 2021 #5
I have met him several times at various science fiction things. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #6

Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)
1. 50/50, I'd say.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 05:17 PM
Sep 2013

Some of us stuff can be decent, but he's by no means one of the greats.

That said, the finest work he did was the Knights of the Old Republic arc for Tales of the Jedi comics.

 

MrModerate

(9,753 posts)
4. I'm happy for you that you've found one of his books you enjoy . . .
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 02:29 AM
Sep 2013

Since my experience seems to be only with his turds.

I'd rate him as one of the leading hacks in contemporary SF, and guilty of a thousand sins for his and Brian Herbert's pollution of Frank Herbert's Dune legacy. IMO he's guilty of some of the crappiest writing in the English language.

In fact, the notion that he wrote something people enjoy is hard for me to imagine. I'll take your word for it, though, because I'll never touch anything that has his name on it again.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,544 posts)
6. I have met him several times at various science fiction things.
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 10:00 PM
Oct 2021

Great guy.

He once defended my honor when I got into an argument with some guy at the hotel bar for the con. Because I'm a woman, despite my screen name, that guy thought he could intimidate me into backing down. I no longer recall the specifics, but Kevin was great.

He will be the Guest of Honor at MileHi Con in Denver, in 2022, if you can possibly consider going.

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