# Wolfe-Like Book *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 May 1997* > 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. --- ### Marty Light *16 May 1997, 08:38* I know that Gene Wolfe has mentioned Damon Knight as an influence. I recommend Knight's book "Humpty Dumpty" to fans of Wolfe's work. In this recent work, Knight gives us an injured narrator (bullet injury to head), games with memories real and imagined (caused by head injury), shifts in time and space, vague conspiracies, hints of underlying logic but no clear answers. To me, this book felt like a homage to Gene, and alternatively reminded me of parts of TBOTNS, "Peace" and "There Are Doors". I kept waiting for Severian, the green man and Lara Morgan to show up. ---