Wolfe at the Beach: Two Reveiws
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 Aug 2007
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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? 

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> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:07:00 -0500
> From: "Rex Lycanthrosaurus" 
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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
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