Captain Infinity wrote:
>
> Hardly.  How many spaceships and booze-making robots does "Tempest"
> have?  Practically *none*!  And the special effects pale in comparison.

You do have a point there.

> That Billy Shakespeare wrote some pretty couplets but he stunk at
> science fiction.

But it doesn't seem like you've seen all of his plays.  I rather liked
Midsummer Nights Dream.  It's had several SF novel spinoffs as
well by modern writers.
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