# Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reveiws *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Aug 2007* > 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. --- ### Patrick Pottorff *29 Aug 2007, 23:26* Hey, since you mentioned that, where can I find "Pattern Recognition"? What about the other New Sun and Briah short stories? > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:07:00 -0500 > From: "Rex Lycanthrosaurus" > Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reviews > To: "The Urth Mailing List" > Message-ID: <1188356820.744.1207790373 at webmail.messagingengine.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > > Interestingly, Gibson borrows one of the Wolfe's classic techniques in > "Spook Country" -- i.e., refusing to identify a major character by name, > in this case "the old man" -- although if you've read "Pattern > Recognition," you can probably guess who he most likely is. > > Similarly, Father Christopher's last name is never stated in Pirate > Freedom, although Wolfe does provide several clues about its ultimate > identity. Perhaps it's even the same as a certain list alumnus -- one > with a hard to pronounce Italian name? > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:43:11 -0700 (PDT), "Stuart Hamm" > said: > Amen to the Gibson plug...I loved "Spook..." although not quite as much > as "Pattern Recognition" > Philip K Dick meets Paul Auster > I just wish he was as prolific as GW and I didn't have to wait so long > between releases > Rex Lycanthrosaurus > lycanthrosaurus at fastmail.fm > http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. ---