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That's Roy Lackey's reading -- wherever Severian remarks on his perfect memory, he is shown to stumble. However, that does not make him a classical "unreliable" narrator -- that is…
04 Aug 2006, 23:28
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Of course you should keep everything. Seriously, Wolfe is perhaps our best -- why not? That said, of the books above, perhaps _Nightside the Long Sun_ would go first because it re…
22 Nov 2005, 01:13
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It would have been in 1976 or so, before Wolfe had had much (if any) in the way of commercial success, though after he was established as a major writer in the SF field.…
02 Mar 2004, 12:57
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I will say that I read it back then, when I was 16 or so, and not since. A couple of years later, my then girlfriend, also an SF fan*, remarked only slightly caustically that much…
02 Mar 2004, 04:21
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Another wonderful historical fiction writer. I prefer Dunnett slightly, but many people prefer Holland. Not much like Heyer at all. (Though I like Heyer too. (I think Georgette H…
01 Mar 2004, 13:08
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There are translations for all of them somewhere -- not sure if they are on the web. Elaine Thompson would know. I was able to enjoy the book despite not being able to read any o…
01 Mar 2004, 13:03
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Indeed. For what it's worth, I prefer Dunnett's earlier series, which is linked to the Niccolo books: The Chronicles of Lymond. Beginning with The Game of Kings. (Which is not…
01 Mar 2004, 02:39
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_The Rose_ is wonderful, but it's at least as irrational or non-rational as _The Paradox Men_.…
09 Aug 2003, 02:30
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Well, yes (though the "publication" categories are notoriously loose -- I've just been reading a 1961 issue of Galaxy with a 5500 word story proudly labelled "novelette", and I not…
28 Jun 2003, 04:07
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"Semley's Necklace" is just barely a novelette, at some 7700 words -- but I don't think parsing short story/novelette distinctions at that level is useful. One of the neat things …
27 Jun 2003, 13:12
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And their guitarist was Richard Thompson, very possibly the finest guitarist (in the rock/pop idiom) of our time. Definitely not "music for hippies". Fine stuff, actually.…
19 Apr 2003, 18:14
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My favorite Nabokov books are _Pnin_ and _Pale Fire_, order depending on mood. _Ada_ is another outstanding book, though, and SF (if of a decidedly odd nature). (His early Russia…
17 Apr 2003, 00:51
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The etymology, as far as I can tell, is "wer" (man) + "wulf" (wolf), hence manwolf. As such, why add the "e", one might ask? --=20 Rich Horton | Stable Email: mailto://richard.h…
04 Mar 2003, 22:38
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Incidentally, Nick, I don't recall if you've mentioned Wolfe's new story in the upcoming Weird Tales, Spring 2003. It's called "My Name is Nancy Wood". It's quite short, under 200…
20 Feb 2003, 01:45
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I thought "Castaway" quite good. One of his better recent stories. It reminded me of Tiptree's "Last Flight of Dr. Ain". so,=20 SPOILER Do you think the world was …
10 Jan 2003, 02:43
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I grew up in Naperville, the next town closer to Chicago than Aurora. And I'll note that Barrington Hills was indeed famous as a town where rich people lived -- the Chicago Sun-Ti…
27 Aug 2001, 20:41
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_The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities_ I have heard that rumour as well -- from sufficiently reputable sources that I believe it quite possibly true, but couched in such t…
01 Aug 2001, 22:46
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I think Wolfe is our greatest contemporary SF writer. So I'm biased. Take my words with whatever grains of salt you need. But why not try the short stories? "Forlesen". "Seven …
28 Nov 2000, 03:59
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Fair enough, though I'd be interested in seeing what lexical analysis of the sort used to address authorship questions of Biblical books would do with New Sun/Long Sun. On the fac…
18 Apr 2000, 20:22
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Attributing it to "St. John" is controversial as well, as contemporary scholarship seems to agree that John of Patmos, the author of Revelation, is not the apostle John.…
16 Apr 2000, 19:46
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another writer often accused of misogyny is Kingsley Amis, and I read his novel _The Russian Girl_ at about the same time I read "The Ziggurat". It struck me that the portrayal of…
27 Jan 2000, 22:19
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That sort of sentence is very characteristic of Clute. It's just his style. By the way, if anyone wants to read a novel more confusing (though, alas, less rewarding) than Wolfe a…
12 Nov 1999, 03:12
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That may have been me, if you saw it on rec.arts.sf.written. In that case, I was generalizing from personal experience, in that the novella "The Fifth Head of Cerberus" was the fi…
11 Nov 1999, 04:23
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I just got my the latest New York Review of Science Fiction, which includes a fine (and in my opinion largely correct) review of _Exodus of the Long Sun_ (or actually of _The Book …
09 Jun 1997, 16:05
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M. John Harrison is a very fine British writer of SF and mainstream fiction. He's probably best known in the States for his Viriconium books: _The Pastel City_, _A Storm of Wings_…
16 May 1997, 08:32
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A little more like the latter: IIRC, Fitzgerald's translations (he did several, often quite different, editions) are very "free": it is quite common to regard him as in a considera…
08 May 1997, 08:47
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