I wrote to Peter Nicholls thus:
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On the URTH list, someone asks:
< In The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (CD-ROM) John Clute and Peter Nicholls state quite baldly "'A Solar Labyrinth' (1983) was a metafiction about the entire Book [of the New Sun]." Does anyone know if their thinking on this point derived from any support Wolfe might have given this idea? >
Care to elucidate, old bean?
He replies:
This is new to me. I don't think I'd even read the CD-ROM version of the Wolfe entry, or if I had, I'd forgotten. You'd need to ask Clute.
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Damien Broderick