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I bought it back when anything that had his name on it was an autobuy. I go back to reread SHADOWS and PHANTOMS and DRAGON TEARS now and then, but... meh. Nothing new since that book.
I'm not sure if it's because you think that's the road he started going down, or if the topic just makes you squick now everytime you think of him. Demon Seed was one of his earliest works that was re-released with a new cover and everything a long, long time ago, which explains a lot. It was nowhere near the quality of something like Phantoms (my favorite of his), Midnight, Watchers, Lightning, or even some of his other early stuff like Servants of Twilight. If it's just the squick-factor that put you off, yeah, when he wrote it really doesn't matter.
I was a die-hard fan from the day I read Darkfall and couldn't get enough. I read his back catalogue as fast as I could find them at the used bookstore or library, and then pined for every new release. The last books I read were From the Corner of His Eye, in hardcover. I didn't much care for that one, but I can handle an occasional disappointment. It's that each one was a little less satisfying.
The one that did me in, I think , was Moonlight, which had some nice parts but had a child character that I could not believe in at all (if that's the right book). I found myself in disbelief through much of it. I know characters can't be ordinary, but this one was just too far out for me.
Shelley
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