Badboy? Maybe. Iconoclasts tend to be as everyone else tends to piss them off. 
Thing is, though, I wasn't really going for the sort that you automatically hate.
I guess I've just run into one-too-many authors who don't know how to keep those long, interminable sequences interesting. Probably why I like Diane
Duane so much. Maybe I should start rereading her stuff.
Glad that you like the new version better. I'll tweak that conversion a bit later tonight.

Thing is, though, I wasn't really going for the sort that you automatically hate.
I guess I've just run into one-too-many authors who don't know how to keep those long, interminable sequences interesting. Probably why I like Diane
Duane so much. Maybe I should start rereading her stuff.
Glad that you like the new version better. I'll tweak that conversion a bit later tonight.