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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Infocom novels?
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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 01:51:58 GMT
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Graeme Cree (72630.304@CompuServe.COM) wrote:
:      Robin Bailey's books were the most true to the original Infocom stuff,
: since he had obviously played through the games and taken some very serious
: notes.

LCOZ was by far the best.  But I kind of liked ZC because I like Effinger's
writing.  I thought it was creative the way he sort of set up the story as
a kind of analysis of the entire fantasy genre.  His descriptions of the
various locations showed that he'd played the games quite extensively.
