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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 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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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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