There Are Doors, by Gene Wolfe

Chuq Von Rospach · 27 Sep 1989, 05:00 · from sf-lovers.1989.mbox

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From: chuq at apple.com (Chuq Von Rospach)
Subject: Re: There Are Doors, by Gene Wolfe
Date: 27 Sep 89 05:00:17 GMT
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>Has anyone else read this one (probably, by now... it's out in paper)? Is
>this a reprint of an early Wolfe, or what? It's very '50s in many of its
>attitudes, yet it's got what seems to be a commentary on AIDS. It's not a
>bad book, but it's got more the feel of an early Phillip Jose Farmer than
>a current Wolfe.

No, it's a new book, first publishing in hardcover last year. It seems to
be another one of Gene's experiments, similar to Free, Live Free. I
couldn't get into it at all, even though I like his writing. Others I know
loved it.  A few hated it.

Chuq Von Rospach

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