I’ve read those Lemmus books and let me tell you, they are heinous! Hardly counts as a “trilogy,” as the third is just a bunch of labored Twilight Zone-knockoff short stories with a flimsy wraparound to try to tie them into the earlier books. I uncovered a period review where the reviewer refused to believe it was a real book, and not a National Lampoon-esque parody.
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I've not read those, though I was tempted at one point. I've only read two of his early-90s technothrillers, where an elite NATO squadron of European aviators (plus the obligatory Yank) fly souped-up Tornados with super-AAMs against Russian hardware in extremely far-fetched scenarios, and not just because the whole Cold War background that these kinds of novels depended was fast on its way to the dustbin of history. Okay, the view point was slightly different from the usual genre fare, but mostly those novels were workman-like rehashing of conventions. Looking at his bibliography, Savarin seems to have done that most of his career, following trends and working on old ideas for most of his career.
By the way, I know that English is my second language, but am I really the only one who, having first heard about Waiters on the Dance, thought: "What, a sci-fi concept album about dancing waiters?"
I believe that's Jan Akkerman on the left.
A former member of a European prog band wrote this tune for Japanese singer Yoko Katori:
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#285 Is About the real life Job of a very well known (but not from the 70s) Prog artist
^ Well, that would be Generally Hospitable.
Yeah, it's Mr. X, producer or director or something of GH.
The only prog artist I know that directs soap operas is Phideaux (Xavier).
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