# McAuley as Wolfe Lite *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Feb 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Kieran Cleary *04 Feb 1999, 11:52* Anybody read Paul J. McAuley's Child of The River (first book of the Confluence series)? The stylistic and thematic similarities are so obviously close to Wolfe, it must be some sort of homage. One major flaw though: McAuley tells us too much. Where Wolfe is coy and oblique, McAuley rushes in with the solution and the effect in a lupine setting is slightly jarring. The book is similar in style to tBotNS while the plot owes more to tBotLS. Worth a read. Kieran C. North West Labs Finisklin Industrial Estate Sligo Republic of Ireland Tel. +353 71 69441 Fax. +353 71 69451 email: kierannwn at tinet.ie --- ### William H. Ansley *05 Feb 1999, 22:29 · follows Kieran Cleary* > Anybody read Paul J. McAuley's Child of The River (first book of the > Confluence series)? The stylistic and > thematic similarities are so obviously close to Wolfe, it must be some sort > of homage. One major flaw though: McAuley tells us too much. Where Wolfe is > coy and oblique, McAuley rushes in with the solution and the effect in a > lupine setting is slightly jarring. The book is similar in style to tBotNS > while the plot owes more to tBotLS. Worth a read. Wow, a book written like Wolfe but with an author who's not coy and oblique. I don't know if I could stand it. The relief, that is. William Ansley ---