>Doug Bassett wrote:
>Books can be good or bad, but relatively few books
lose this kind of impact
because society marches on, I think. Less >>than most
people think, anyway.
I'd like to think this is true, because society and science
and technology are marching on at a pretty fast pace. I
recently read an S.J. Rozan short story that couldn't have
been more than four or five years old that dealt with the
illegal sale of some powder --tiger tooth, I think -- that
had an aphrodisiac affect. It was completely undercut by the
arrival of Viagra. But it was still a nicely written
piece.
Sue Grafton knew what she was doing when she decided to keep
her books in the Eighties. I do have to keep reminding myself
that they're not contemporary, but I don't miss the cell
phones at all.
Dick Lochte
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