Mute reviewed, sorta
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 May 2008
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Matt Sab — 12 May 2008, 15:57

A review of the Wasteland compilation of stories, included "Mute" by GW?:

http://darkwolfsfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/wastelands-stories-of-apocalypse-edited.html

Do you think Gene Wolfe would receive more press coverage if more reviewers did not have a similar reaction as this reviewer? 

?For those who don't want to bother clicking through, here is the take on Mute:
"Mute" by Gene Wolfe. The story is about two children that come home and find it empty and find an empty land. I have to admit that I didn't understand this story.

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Blake Hyde — 12 May 2008, 16:22
  in reply to Matt Sab

> Do you think Gene Wolfe would receive more press coverage if more reviewers
> did not have a similar reaction as this reviewer?

Sure, but he also wouldn't be as interesting.  Funny thing is, it's a
pretty straight-forward story, in terms of symbolism.

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The children represent Adam and Eve.  You could say that the dead
father is God; or that the television is God, and that the "MUTE"
represents their inability to hear the voice of God.  Either way, it's
a story of the Garden.

I thought it was good, but pretty simple...

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