"Although Ms. Lessing at the beginning of her writing career had a few admirable qualities, I find her work for the past 15 years quite unreadable ... fourth-rate science fiction," Bloom told The Associated Press.
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Oh but really, this is little more than grumpy old man assholiness.
To my knowledge, Lessing wrote three science fiction themed works, known collectively as 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. Literary snobs (may their flat asses be dipped in the lava flows of Venus) apparently never forgave her.
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