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Remarks from the IBIC Editor's Journal
March 7, 1995 Let's hear it for our local librarians!
The magic of interlibrary loan brought me three otherwise
unobtainable books by 
Daniel Keys Moran
Web:  ARMEGGADON BLUES, EMERALD EYES, and THE LONG RUN (all
by Bantam).  I also reread his 1993 THE
LAST DANCER.  It's interesting--he shows a lot of growth as
an author and a man.   ARMAGGEDDON BLUES is almost unreadably
juvenile, and I don't recommend it; EMERALD EYES is complex and
engaging, a significant step forward; THE LONG RUN is less
complex in terms of story, but the character of Trent the
Uncatchable is more sharply sketched than anything in EE; and
THE LAST DANCER puts it all together, story and character
considerably richer than any of his previous books.  I recommend
you start with EMERALD EYES and watch alertly for THE
AI WARS.  Moran is definitely an author to watch: he's hitting
his stride.
Fall 1994

THE LAST DANCER by Daniel Keys Moran is the first book I've read by this
prolific and ambitious SF author, whom I first heard of here
on the Net.  It won't be the last.  It's off to the
Ann Arbor Public Library to read his oeuvre.
Moran says in his Author's Note
that he projects 33 novels in his TALES OF CONTINUING TIME series, of which
THE LAST DANCER is the 4th.  He's not going to take any short cuts to 33, either:
THE LAST DANCER is a long and meaty book that kept me involved for a lot
more time than I could afford on a very busy weekend.  This book is great stuff
set in the 21st century high-tech wish-fulfillment milieu (telepaths, AIs, genetically
engineered humans) which has produced so much excellent SF in recent years.
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