Io9.com uses Terra Incognita to poll users for opinions on Prog Rock and Sci-Fi
Did you know KJA was a "mega-author"?
Any music at all would be preferable to a KJA novel.
KJA is surely one of the most turgid authors ever to have put finger to keyboard. The laughable Dune prequals, the soporific Saga of Seven Snores series, this is writing at it's worst. His work isn't for reading, it's for lying down and avoiding.
Dare I say, he is worse than Dan Brown? I dare!
And you didn't even mention the dreadful Jedi Academy Trilogy. Way to take all the awesome buzz left behind from Timothy Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy and swat it dead with a SLEDGEHAMMER of awful.
Fortunately, when I see any book with KJA's name on the cover I have a mini blackout and find myself in a different section of the store with a stack of other books in my arms.
Kevin J. Anderson's writing: blecch.
Prog rock, with rare exceptions: blecch.
Looks like a fine match.
Kevin J. Anderson is no authority on writing and certainly not on music. Io9's integrity would be better served by avoiding Anderson's opinion on either subject.
"How do you like them apples?"Also, yay for a new original KJA novel, if only because it means he is not currently desecrating yet another classic franchise.