# OT, Wolfe-like stories *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Mar 2002* > 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *18 Mar 2002, 21:14* I recently read the Hartwell/Cramer anthology THE ASCENT OF WONDER: THE EVOLUTION OF HARD SF. It is a good antho; it is a thick antho; it has two Wolfe stories in it ("Procreation" and "All the Hues of Hell"). It has a solid approach: it is like taking a course in Big(gest) Tent "hard sf," reading it through in order and seeing the various threads the editors are talking about. This is "value added" to the simple collection--a guided tour of the architecture and history by seasoned professionals. There are a few stories I read for the first time in here that I thought were great, but one in particular that I would like to recommend: "Chromatic Aberration" by John M. Ford. I find it Wolfe-like but in no way immitative. I will search for more of his work, because I am very interested based on this one story. "Wolfe-like, how?" you might well ask. The story is not baroque science fantasy ala New Sun, it is more like magical realism and something else. It also seems like a Le Guin work, if that helps capture what I'm trying to convey without giving away too much of anything at all. I can't help but wonder what other readers see--I'd love to compare notes in private email. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley Now with UPDATES! http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ---